Best Impasse Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Your ladyship,” I said, trying to keep the irritation from my voice. “Before his death, the king tasked me with taking the princesses to safety.” “And the queen tasked me likewise.” “Now that I’m here, I release you from your duty.” “I release you from yours.” Her tone turned to iron. She had authority over me, and I had none over her. And we both knew it”

Fate Status Impasse Rank

Book:Always

Source: Always

“Assim como a lua, Que mostra apenas uma face, Sou sua cara metade. A vida nua e crua, Requer um impasse, Repleto de meias verdades'.- Pierrot a Columbina”

Amor Face Columbine Mentiras Impasse Pierrot Lua Erros Cara Decepcao Metade Dia Dos Erros Noite

Book:Pierrot & Columbina (Amor de Pierrot Livro 1)

Source: Pierrot & Columbina (Amor de Pierrot Livro 1)

“Nobody wants to take a stand on one side or the other. Too much gray. Too much making excuses for their personal reasons and individual ways of thinking." "What's wrong with, like, finding out the whole story, asking people for the whole context? What's the rush to categorize things as right or wrong, good or bad? For what? So we'll have an excuse to judge them quicker? Conserve our compassion for someone who deserves it more?”

Gray Controversial Impasse Debatable

Book:Sisters with a Side of Greens

Source: Sisters with a Side of Greens

“We are at an impasse...There will come a time, when we can no longer safely approach any Muslim (or radicalised liberal), since we simply cannot trust that they won't lash out with the intent to kill.”

Murder Radical Muslim Public Safety Impasse

Book:We Are One

Source: We Are One

“In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.”

“Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical and mathematical analysis gives men an opportunity to bring conflicts up from the level of fights, where the intellect is beclouded by passions, to the level of games, where the intellect has a chance to operate.”

“When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.”

Dangerous Stuck Randomness Impasse

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter, there is no wrong way to become a Christian. It is the end that is importnat, not the means; it does not matter why you believe, so long as you believe. For the philosopher, in contrast, the paramount issue is the justification of belief, not the fact of belief itself.”

Way Believe Mean Long Doe Ends Matter Facts Christian Belief Issues Atheism Philosopher Positive Atheism Leap Contrast Justification Strategic Wrong Way Paramount Leap Of Faith Impasse

Author:George H. Smith

“One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.”

Needs Self Cities Mystery Streets Guides Layers Sooner Or Later Secrecy Inner Self Inner Life Inner City Impasse

Author:Anais Nin

“When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.”

Needs States Spirit Privilege Discrimination Compromise Heels Negotiation Predator Unlearn Impasse

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.”

Country Water Sky Land Borders Mercury Maine Impasse

Author:Tom Allen

“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.”

“My tendency is to want to say to the person, "Do you understand why I feel this way?" I usually do say that. And sometimes it doesn't go well. By this I mean we hit an impasse again. Not that I need to hear exactly what I want to hear, but I need to know I am heard. Those moments make for a better friendship. But I can't let it go. For good or bad.”

Knows Way Want Needs Feels Wells Mean Persons I Can Sometimes Moments Heard Tendencies Let It Go Impasse

Author:Claudia Rankine

“In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.”

Way Art Political Social My Own Break Break Through Impasse

Author:Jill Soloway

“King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.”

“Those who have come to an impasse should examine their original intentions; those who have succeeded should note where they are heading.”

Should Originals Intention Notes Taoism Headings Impasse

Author:Zicheng Hong

“More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.”

People Ifs Thinking World Stories Political Interesting This World Perspective Balance Storytelling Telling Stories Impasse

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.”

People Thinking Kind Two Ends Universe Stupidity Statements Cowardice Ugliness Novas Impasse

Book:Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way it works, you are given a problem which has no rational solution. There is a contradiction built into it. One standard - one is this is the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And so on. All right, so the first thing is that it brings your rational mind to an impasse.”

Way Mind Firsts Mean Two Problem Hands Given Sound Special Solutions Standards Built Rational Contradiction Two Hands Clapping Impasse

Author:Huston Smith

“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.”

World Way Different Sometimes Use Jobs Past Actors Enjoy Memories Acting Depends Scene Different Ways Enjoy Yourself Impasse

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”

Source: The End of the Affair

“I gave a helpless laugh. “Damned if I know. I think…we seem to have reached impasse. I feel betrayed by your friendship with Verlane. I realize that’s not logical. I realize that if I’d made the mistakes Verlane has made, I’d want my friends to stand by me, hope that someone would help me when the time came. I just…” “What?” I met his eyes. “I just need to come first for someone, Guy.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Feels Firsts Made Helping Seems Eye Guy Realizing Mistake Laughing Mets My Friends His Eyes Help Me Logical Helpless Betrayed Stand By Me Impasse

Author:Josh Lanyon

“There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.”

Knows Want Moments Beautiful Sweet Conviction What You Want Horrible Bitter Beautiful Moments Impasse Bitter Sweet Panache

Author:Irvine Welsh

“Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.”

Challenges Attitude Keys Seeming Impasse

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver with an armed force. Unless you use local guides, you cannot get the advantages of the land.”

Knows Art War Use Force Land Mountain Advantage Lays Guides Locals Forests Art Of War Armed Forces Swamps Marshes Impasse

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.”

Giving Humans Shows Dream Running Natural Consciousness Attitude Human Nature Products Pure Foundation Unconscious Spontaneous Accord Memories Dreams Reflections Impasse

Book:The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

“Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.”

Gratitude Appreciation Gratitude And Appreciation Impasse

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.”

War Shows Universe Powerful Knowing Dying Definitions Sickness Opposition Friction Impasse

Author:William S. Burroughs