Quotes About Stalemate

#1. I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

Rand Paul

#2. This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

George W. Bush

#3. His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.

Veronica Roth

#4. Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

Robert Frost

#5. She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked in. She had never guessed it would be Dominic. She had never guessed Dominic could be broken.

Laura Andersen

#6. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

William Faulkner

#7. Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan.
"Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away.
Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. "You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

Kate Brian

#8. It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Eric Hoffer

#9. I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Steven Spielberg

#10. If no one can stalemate God in a game of chess, no one should ever think of winning.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.

Mihail Marin

#12. Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.

Robert Dallek

#13. At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.

Chris Bachelder

#14. I must do something, Elentiya," Nehemia said, using the name she'd given her on the night Celaena admitted that she was an assassin. "I must find a way to help my people. When does gathering information become a stalemate? When do we act?" Celaena

Sarah J. Maas

#15. The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

Isaac Asimov

#16. Iraq's government is at a stalemate.

Mowaffak Al-Rubaie

#17. So sing, you birds
for the fever is about to rise
and the empty stalemate is over
let the colors bleed back into you
and let the dead be buried for another year.
from let the colors bleed

K.R. Albers

#18. Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.

Elvis Stojko

#19. Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

Charles Krauthammer

#20. 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.

Noah Feldman

#21. Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

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

Stephen Fry

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

Elizabeth Peters

#24. The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn't talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.

Mikey Way

#25. My generation were all careerists.

Zaha Hadid

#26. A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.

Yukio Mishima

#27. So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

Ang Lee

#28. And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

James Russell Lowell

#29. A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably

Kamala Suraiyya Das

#30. I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

Jill Dando

#31. Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

Susan Marsh

#32. That everything that happens can be converted to good. We simply do not know the good of it, our world being so vast and wide and us but a small part in it

Jane Kirkpatrick

#33. Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

Barney Frank

#34. The miserable are sacred.

Seneca The Younger

#35. I'm not opposed to falling in love

Taylor Swift