Top 100 Quotes About Dictate

#1. It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

Estella Warren

#2. If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.

Mark Batterson

#3. If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

Barbara Kruger

#5. Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

J.G. Ballard

#6. Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

Prince

#7. Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.

Maya Tiwari

#8. The ideas dictate everything.

David Lynch

#9. I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed.

Wanda Lea Brayton

#10. Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

Gary Hopkins

#11. You can't let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

Kelly Clark

#12. If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

Barry Diller

#13. In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#14. You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Maya Lin

#15. Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.

Wanda Coleman

#16. My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate ... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.

Sandra Lee

#17. There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

Lois Greiman

#18. I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.

Grant Morrison

#19. In this life you will have some trials and tribulations. You cannot allow what happens to you to dictate who and what you become. Make a decision to do better and be better.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#20. I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

Marina And The Diamonds

#21. To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea ... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

Vanilla Ice

#22. If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's approval dictate your actions

Christopher Paolini

#23. Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

David Lehman

#24. Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Thomas Malthus

#25. That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate.

Rowan Coleman

#26. And if i
if i ever let love go
because the hatred and the whisperings
become a phantom dictate i o-
bey in lieu of impulse and realities
(the blossoming flamingos of my
wild mimosa trees)
then let love freeze me
out.
(from i must become a menace to my enemies)

June Jordan

#27. I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

Jay-Z

#28. teachers think they get to dictate what you think about. It's not enough if you just sit there quietly and let them teach. It's like they think they have a right to control your mind.

Becky Albertalli

#29. People of character don't allow the environment to dictate their style.

Lucille Kallen

#30. The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Gerald R. Ford

#31. First, stop making formula films that people have already started rejecting.

This year, several big budget films haven't been entertained by the audience.Still stars continue to dictate terms.

The youth wants new good content.

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Anurag Kashyap

#32. Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.

Jillian Bullock

#33. Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

Anna Meredith

#34. If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

Ernestine Rose

#35. I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

Caleb Cushing

#36. Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

Brian Molko

#37. My junk doesn't dictate who I am.

Kristin Elizabeth Clark

#38. I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

Jack Kerouac

#39. Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value.

Tiffany L. Jackson

#40. Seek your own answers in life, and not what others dictate to you.

Jemina Akhtar

#41. Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny.

Arthur L. Herman

#42. Your thoughts and emotions will dictate the kind of life you will have.

Jayson Engay

#43. I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

Venerable Bede

#44. Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#45. So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

Glenn Danzig

#46. Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

Vince Staples

#47. As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

Richard Diebenkorn

#48. Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Tony Abbott

#49. Our needs will always try to dictate their conditions to us.

Sunday Adelaja

#50. Instinct was well and good in the right situations, but I refused to let it dictate how I treated or reacted to the people around me. What they were was not the same as who they were, and I knew that better than anyone.

Drew Hayes

#51. Don't let your shadows dictate to you where you should stand

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#52. And we're to accept that the government can dictate the moral beliefs of all its citizens?

William Leisner

#53. Their world is governed by children, little despots whose needs - school and camp and activities and tutors - dictate every decision, and will for the next ten, fifteen, eighteen years[...] Having children has provided their adulthood with an instant and nonnegotiable sense of purpose and direction.

Hanya Yanagihara

#54. Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Ken Danby

#55. Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

Matt Walsh

#56. Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

Ryan Holmes

#57. The mystery of life
its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly ... has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.

Theodore Dreiser

#58. Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be sure, they have a sizable audience which numbers in the tens of millions. But having people tune in and being able to dictate their actions are two different things.

John Ridley

#59. The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

Frank Pavone

#60. Whenever a soul is brutalized, cleansing and healing must happen. But
you are strong, Quinn. You learn from the past and the present, but you do not
let it dictate your future. You let it guide you, inspire you and instruct you
only.

Joey W. Hill

#61. Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.

Simone Elkeles

#62. As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#63. Don't let your past dictate your future.

Chris Mentillo

#64. You're not alone, and you never have been. I might not be here anymore, but you have people who care about you. Don't allow your past to dictate your future. And always remember that I love you.

Tamsyn Bester

#65. Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

Sonam Kapoor

#66. We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.

Jen Pollock Michel

#67. We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

Abdallah II

#68. Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.

Sandra Newman

#69. Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.

Lee M. Sapp

#70. Never let the details take over the story; let the story dictate what details to use.

Krista D. Ball

#71. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

Ayn Rand

#72. Your past doesn't have to dictate who you are, but it can help you discover who you're meant to be.

C.M. Stunich

#73. I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.

Frederick Lenz

#74. The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions.

Hal Elrod

#75. The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

Bernie Worrell

#76. Your past does not have to dictate your future. You have the God-given power to make your life better and to heal from divorce.

Renee Smith Ettline

#77. The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Tanith Lee

#78. We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

Neville Brody

#79. I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

Simone Elkeles

#80. We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

Allen Lacy

#81. I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

Frederick Lenz

#82. Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.

Mariella Frostrup

#83. The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership - they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

Daniel Goleman

#84. Visualizing is meant to be used as a tool to trigger an emotional response within yourself. These emotions then dictate your vibration.

Jennifer O'Neill

#85. Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.

Mark Batterson

#86. By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

Elissa Schappell

#87. But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

Lysander Spooner

#88. If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

Charis Wilson

#89. The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

Paul Kagame

#90. The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Alex Cox

#91. Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

Mike Huckabee

#92. Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

Michael Mullen

#93. Your history doesn't need to dictate your destiny

Christine Caine

#94. We can spend out lives letting others dictate our narrative, and cast ourselves as the victims. Or we can realize the truth: that we are the creators of our own story.

Rania Al-Abdullah

#95. Never say never, dear.
You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate

Ellen Hopkins

#96. Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

Nathaniel Lyon

#97. Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Tom Stoppard

#98. When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.

Tomoki Kameda

#99. Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

Ayn Rand

#100. The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.

Eduardo Paes

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