#ultimatum

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#golfer #lose #never #prepared #ultimatum

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#authority #deal #get #going #negotiated

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#ali #bored #delivering #especially #fighting

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#american #dialogue #diplomacy #hoped #international

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#diplomats #message #our #prophets #ultimatum

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

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#conventional #conventional wisdom #never #ultimatums #wisdom

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#better #clear #community #continue #defiance

They'll be granted immunity!" I feel myself rising from my chair, my voice full of resonant. "You will personally pledge this in front of the entire population of District Thirteen and the remainder of Twelve. Soon. Today. It will be recorded for future generations. You will hold yourself and your government responsible for their safety, or you'll find yourself another Mockingjay! ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #peeta-mellark #the-hunger-games #ultimatum #responsibility