Quotes About Being Dictated To

#1. I can never consent to being dictated to.

John Tyler

#2. When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

Bernard Hopkins

#3. These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

Roy Keane

#4. I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#5. The Angel of Death was nothing special to look at: it had manifested itself today as a plate of someone's finished meal of bacon and eggs. Egg yolk was smeared across the white plate. Inside this smear were scattered bread crumbs.

Jonathan Carroll

#6. I'm really proud of all the stuff we've built with Green Lantern - from Larfleeze to the different corps. The universe has expanded and will live well past my run. It was more than just telling another story, but really giving back to the character by expanding and adding to their mythology.

Geoff Johns

#7. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 - JOHN CALVIN

Mike Bickle

#8. Vision will not guarantee success, but it will point you in the right direction and keep you from wandering into the kinds of relationships that you never intended to have. SUSAN

Debra Fileta

#9. My soul had a hole in it, in the place where you had been. I still feel like there's a part of me missing. A big part of me. It hurts all the time. Every day.

P.C. Cast

#10. sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new

Michael Connelly

#11. What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Wayne Dyer

#12. Baley tried to picture a world as a sphere being lit and unlit as it turned. He found it hard to do and felt scornful of the so-superior Spacers who let such an essential thing as time be dictated to them by the vagaries of planetary movements.

Isaac Asimov

#13. If people can fly, that will be good; they will hang around in the sky and the ground will be quieter!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.

Dawn Powell

#15. I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

Helena Bonham Carter

#16. Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Eric Hoffer

#17. America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

Alex Epstein

#18. If a theme runs through the history of Florida, it is this: something's great, and someone comes along to mess it up.

Eliot Kleinberg

#19. Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

Rob Zombie

#20. Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.

Jewel

#21. THE ANGEL RAZIEL
Teacher? I did an independent study, does that count?
Yes. You may skip this section. Enjoy your newfound sixty seconds

Cassandra Clare

#22. [On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

Fanny Kemble

#23. Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

Darin Strauss

#24. The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

Sara Blakely

#25. In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.

Amy Heckerling

#26. He was still glowering into the distance, as if he expected the murderer to pop up from behind a boulder and wave.

Kristin Cashore

#27. As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

George Brandis

#28. Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

Joshua