Top 16 Ultimatums Quotes & Sayings

One of the things I love about negotiations is that you have to be able to play it like an orchestra, different instruments for different circumstances. There's sweetness, and encouragement, and cajoling. There's pressure, there's drama, there's ultimatums.

Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a stay-at-home mother someday, but I'll always be trying to fly off the garage roof. That's just who I am.

When my husband gives me this ultimatum, "You either stop singing, or you move out," then it became very clear that what I needed to do - not just because I wanted to sing, but because I didn't want to live with anybody who issued ultimatums to me like that - would be to move out.

It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

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.

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.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

There are no ultimatums for Renault other than we want to improve as quickly as we can.

I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

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

The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.

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.

It's pretty irrefutable that you can help yourself. I just don't believe in ultimatums.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.