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Quotes About Ultimatum

Sólo es importante el final de las cosas.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.
~ Alberto Fujimori
I tell you, my husband, I've put up with as much as I can. Either you get yourself home in a jiffy and act like a human being—or else! As I wish my enemies an early death, so I am from the bottom of my heart, Your truly faithful wife
~ Sholom Aleichem
hinted at his decision. I reread my own e-mail, wondering if perhaps I had sounded off-putting, too bold, too assertive, whether I had conveyed my own strength of feeling. I loved Sam. I wanted him with me. Did he understand how much? But having issued the most enormous of ultimata it
~ Jojo Moyes
Di recente - aveva detto - ho dato al mio capo un ultimatum. O mi paga di più o me ne vado. - E com'è finita - aveva chiesto Musja. - Con un compromesso. Lui in definitiva lo stipendio non me l'ha aumentato e io, dal canto mio, ho deciso di non licenziarmi.
~ Sergei Dovlatov
Be it a highwayman who confronts a traveler with the ultimatum: 'Your money or your life,' or a politician who confronts a country with the ultimatum: 'Your children's education or your life,' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'—and neither is possible to man without the other. "If there are degrees
~ Ayn Rand
he watched it with curiosity. It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.
~ Ayn Rand
If you go an further, I'll have to put you to sleep forever.
~ Shizuru Seino
Governing through federal ultimatum grates against our history, traditions, and, most importantly, our Constitution.
~ Luther Strange
After my loss to Rogers, I had a meeting with all my trainers and they kind of gave me the ultimatum that you have to do it our way, or you have to look for some different trainers. And now I've become more discipline.
~ Andrei Arlovski
Either I get Frank's job as president, or I'm going to leave the company. JEFFREY KATZENBERG TO DISNEY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL EISNER LESS THEN THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER THE DEATH OF DISNEY NUMBER TWO, FRANK WELLS
~ Stanley Bing
Accept me or kill me MacKayla. But choose. Fucking Choose.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It doesn't matter if I'm the first. It only matters that I'll be the last
~ Ilona Andrews
shoot you, or
~ Stuart Woods
My author website doesn't provide a personal e-mail address, and I didn't own my first smartphone until 2012 (when my pregnant wife gave me an ultimatum—"you have to have a phone that works before our son is born").
~ Cal newport
Twenty months had now gone by since Nixon's inauguration, and peace seemed no nearer. Thwarted in his desire to strike a bold blow against the North, frustrated at the continuing impasse in Paris, and angered by the antiwar demonstrations that had undermined his ultimatum, the president searched for another opportunity to make the kind of dramatic show of force he thought would force Hanoi to make the concessions that would lead to peace. Cambodia would provide it.
~ Geoffrey C. Ward
Relationships without hiccups were too boring, so inevitably they had to end. Don't get comfortable. Uncomfortable and not knowing had become my comfort zone. I was always looking for an ultimatum - a way to test someone's commitment, to prove they would disappoint me, and if they didn't do anything wrong, I would find a way to prove they were disappointing before they even had a chance to be.
~ Chelsea Handler
If we're not going to get married, we need to break up. So…shit or get off the pot, honey." "That was beautiful," murmured Father Bruce as he opened a menu.
~ Kristan Higgins
You and I are not going to survive long term, regardless of love or bonding, if you keep airbrushing things. If I keep airbrushing things. It's not a good strategy for us—and if this makes you feel like you're on the spot? As if I'm giving you an ultimatum? I don't care. If anything gets in the way of our relationship, anything, I will mow that shit down—even if it is you.
~ J.R. Ward
I think that, whether you liked the outcome or not, the reasons for doing 'Ultimatum' were necessary. The Ultimate Universe had become too much like the regular Marvel Universe, and that was certainly not a good thing for the line.
~ Jonathan Hickman
Mors ultima linea rerum est. Death is everything's final limit.
~ Tasha Alexander
that time Mr. Trist handed in his ultimatum. Texas was to be given up absolutely by Mexico, and New Mexico and California ceded to the United States for a stipulated sum to be afterwards determined. I do not suppose Mr. Trist had any discretion whatever in regard to boundaries. The war was one of conquest, in the interest of an institution, and the probabilities are that private instructions were for the acquisition of territory out of which new States might be carved.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
In the beginnings of that silence, he knew something. Clearly. Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the "one more thing" will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn't even matter much what it was. It would be the straw that broke her. And it had been defined. Prepared for. So it would happen. It was only a matter of time.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the "one more thing" will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn't even matter much what it was. It would be the straw that broke her. And it had been defined. Prepared for. So it would happen. It was only a matter of time.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde