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Quotes About Ultimatum

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?' Then my father gave me an ultimatum.
~ Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
I have been in business a long time. I never had a successful relationship or partnership with any entity by issuing an ultimatum.
~ Casey Wasserman
You've one week to solve this, or you're history!
~ Phil Hall
Your brother says he will sever all ties with us unless we do as he asks and sign Rusheen over to him.
~ Edna O'Brien
I will give you three days, if the gates are not opened on these revised terms, I shall attack. And then there shall be no terms of any kind."
~ al-Walid, Khalid ibn
If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...
~ Khushwant Singh
Your ultimatum didn't sit well with me, so naturally, I voiced my opinion." "Which was?" "That you should go copulate with a pig. It sounded way cooler in medieval French.
~ Kresley Cole
Here's the deal,' Raylan said. 'I'm giving you twenty-four hours to get out of this county and never come back.' Raylan looked at his watch. 'That means you have until … two-fifteen tomorrow afternoon to clear out. If I see you're still around after that, I won't hesitate to shoot you on sight. You have any questions?
~ Elmore Leonard
You take one more step, Raylan said, I'll shoot you. That's all I'm gonna say.
~ Elmore Leonard
The Zip was quiet, maybe trying to guess what was in Raylan's mind. He seemed curious. Finally he said, Okay, what do you want to tell me? Here's the deal, Raylan said. I'm giving you twenty-four hours to get out of this county and never come back. Raylan looked at his watch. That means you have until...two-fifteen tomorrow afternoon to clear out. If I see you're still around after that, I won't hesitate to shoot you on sight. You have any questions?
~ Elmore Leonard
'Wait a Minute,' which I consider my expose, came from a place of someone asking me to make a decision: basically presenting me with an ultimatum and me just feeling the need to just lay it out on the table.
~ Luke James
After two years I said to my boyfriend, "Either tell me your name or it's over."
~ Rita Rudner
Once you give an ultimatum, you have to mean it. You can't pull back. Sometimes your 'or else' is all the power you have and you can't be afraid to do what you threaten to do.
~ Rita Williams-Garcia
So eager were its officials that the German government had telegraphed its ambassador in St. Petersburg two declarations of war to be delivered to Russia's foreign minister: one if Russia did not reply to its ultimatum, the other rejecting the Russian reply as unsatisfactory. In his haste and confusion, the ambassador handed over both messages.
~ Adam Hochschild
If you make Josh's dumb white- chocolate cranberry cookies and not my fruitcake ones, it's over.
~ Jenny Han
Duck was a neutral party, so he brought the ultimatum to the cows.
~ Doreen Cronin
Résolution : s'il ne vient pas à Cergy avant mon départ pour Jersey, je le vois encore une fois et je romps. Ou bien je romps au téléphone.
~ Annie Ernaux
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Sonunda blöfünün görülmesini istemiyorsan asla ultimatom verme
~ Salman Rushdie
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
~ Mark Ruffalo
There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.
~ Roger Scruton
All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.
~ Frederick Buechner
Then don't give me a deadline. Let me do it in my own way." "As you have been until now, keeping every man at arm's length, scaring them away with your target shooting?" Gran shook her head. "You cannot fall in love if you do not let a man close. And you will not let a man close unless you have a reason. I know you. If I rescind that ultimatum, you will bury yourself on this estate and never come out.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. —¿La última carta la juega la Muerte?
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte