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Quotes About Impasse

Duelo) No Continuo, sino Inmóvil
~ Roland Barthes
Arta, presupun, r?mâne apanajul exclusiv al încep?torilor ori al celor hot?râÈ›i s? nu mai ias? din impas, mulÈ›umindu-se cu surogatul Realit??ii Absolute, cu simboluri, în loc de ceea ce semnific?, È™i cu reÈ›ete elegant compuse, în locul dineului propriu-zis.
~ Aldous Huxley
Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.
~ Nelson Peltz
there is no bargaining with a man who won't talk.
~ Louis L'Amour
was a palisade of noncommunication.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
But now—why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater.
~ Ron Powers
Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.
~ Paul Theroux
CHAPTER XLVI IT CANNOT BE ARRANGED
~ Anthony Trollope
impatience gets the better of us. The politicians, no offense, see an impasse. So they give the word, and the armies clash. They take territory or destroy it, kill hundreds, sometimes thousands. And it all comes down to the ones who started talking giving in to frustration.
~ John Walker
Pe masura ce arta se infunda in impas, se inmultesc artistii. Aceasta anomalie inceteaza sa mai existe ca atare cand te gandesti ca arta, pe cale de epuizare, a devenit in acelasi timp si imposibila si facila.
~ Emil Cioran
published the Road Map to Peace. The premise of this plan, as the Palestinian historians Samih Farsoun and Naseer Aruri point out, "is that the nearly forty-year-old impasse is not caused by an abnormal and illegal occupation but by the Palestinian resistance to that occupation. Progress was thus linked to ending the intifada and all acts of resistance rather than ending the occupation or reversing decades of colonial impoverishment of land, resource, and institutions.
~ Saree Makdisi
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
~ Stephen Fry
Life in the Impasse des Huit Anges would, Latimer thought, be rather like a rehearsal for Eternity.
~ Eric Ambler
abyss. I pressed Tim for an alternative solution, but he had none.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
This was a predicament that she would have to get herself out of, though there did not seem to be any way.
~ Mary Balogh
A problem is something to solve. If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one.
~ Jonathan Tropper
The Senate was the home of governmental sclerosis.
~ Joseph Flynn
Le pire aspect matériel, et surtout moral, de la société néo-industrielle, ce n'est pas le travail, mais l'industrie lourde du loisir. Une dés-organisation des loisirs permettrait entre autres de sortir de l'impasse d'un développement touristique qui çà et là tourne au pandémonium. En effet, si les gens trouvaient chez eux ce qu'ils cherchent en vain toujours plus loin, une bonne partie d'entre eux ne cèderaient pas à la panique estivale.
~ Bernard Charbonneau
Doy un paso atrás otra vez. La puerta está atrancada. Ahora hay una forma menos de entrar. Por supuesto, también hay una forma menos de salir.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man. Yet to turn our backs on the destructive forces of the century is of little avail.
~ Hannah Arendt
Win looked at Myron. Myron raised his eyebrows. Brenda sighed. "Before you two continue your patronizing glances—the ones that say, 'Golly gee, the woman is actually capable of cogitation'—let me add that I'm just giving you a way around the impasse. I don't buy it for a second. It leaves too much unexplained.
~ Harlan Coben
We've seen, in Washington, both sides say they don't want to give up much of anything.
~ John Dickerson
One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism
~ Felix Morrow
Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.
~ Michael Chabon