Standoffs Quotes

• Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff." ... Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments. "Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin

  Derek Landy

  Next, Moments, Said

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• Israel is a big provider of military technology to Brazil and this has caused a big breach in the two sides of the government. On the one hand, you have the diplomatic side. On the other side, Brazil's military has been quoted in the local press as being quite upset that this diplomatic standoff could affect the military relationship.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Military, Technology, Government

  "Brazil Rejects Israel's Ambassador; Israel Threatens Relations Downgrade". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Today, Nuclear

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• There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Daughter, Time, Son

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Dream, Teacher, Art

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.109, Penguin

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• White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

  Andrea Tantaros

  White, House, Republican

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if you've read the books, it's the standoff with lots of vampires in play. There's like 70 people going through the works at once. It's a little maddening, but fun. We shot pretty much the ending of the two movies the other day.

  Peter Facinelli

  Fun, Book, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• [Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He`s part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room for basically every important negotiation, every standoff, every big development, particularly between the United States and Russia for decades.

  Rachel Maddow

  Memories, Russia, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.

  Laura Sydell

  Years, Government, Looks

  "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At the heart of this issue was my belief that our government is simply out of control. Now, to me, this was about a federal agency’s dangerous response to a situation that could have resulted in a catastrophe, and that means people dying and people being shot, kind of comparable to what we saw in Waco, Texas.

  Sean Hannity

  Mean, Heart, Men

  "Sean Hannity: 'Our government is simply out of control'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2014.

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• When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

  Thomas Schelling

  Nuclear, Unions, Today

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• There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Real, Trying

  "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.

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• Now, we'll have to hang out here until we're sure Jared's really gone and can't catch us." He grinned conspiratorially. "Then we'll have some fun!" I remembered that his idea of fun was usually along the lines of an armed standoff.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fun, Ideas, Gone

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

  Kim Carnes

  Eye, Expression, Garbo

  Song: Bette Davis Eyes, Album: Mistaken Identity, 1981

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