Stalemate Quotes

You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damned if you do You'll be damned if you don't

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

The macro of any negotiation is that the only time you can cut a deal is when both sides are hurting. If either side is - is well and feeling happy, you can't get a deal. Then they go for victory. You need - if they're willing to settle for things the other side can live with, it's because they're hurting a little bit.

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

There are two things you find in the middle of the road—a moderate and a dead skunk.

Nobody wants a stalemate in constitutional development.

By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.

There is such a choice of difficulties, that I own myself at a loss how to determine

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues.

There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

The attitude of the Senate toward public affairs makes all serious negotiations impossible.

There will always be voices that basically say: Unless it's the perfect solution, we want no solution. That is unrealistic.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

Both sides think that they have a good chance of winning. That’s the recipe for a long war.