Stalemate – Quotes

Technically, the last number

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

At some point you

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

Truman left in the

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

It was designed to

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn’t compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories. Buzz Aldrin

Marriage, in my view,

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

If you look at

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate. There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic … Read more

I just can’t vote

I just can’t vote to go to war unless I think there’s a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we’re going to win and that we’re not going fight for stalemate. Rand Paul

I will not vote

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

Could Afghanistan become another

Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.
R. W. Apple

Well, I would –

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