Top 583 Dictate Quotes & Sayings

I'm not letting TV dictate who I really am.

I become drunk as circumstances dictate.

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

Don't let technology dictate your life.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

I want it to be one-sided. I don't want to take any bumps or bruises: I want to go out and dictate all aspects and go out the way I came in. I'm looking to dominate and dictate.

Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become.

Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going.

I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room.

I know what I am getting into with heavyweights. Not one of them can dictate against me because, firstly, they don't have feet fast enough. Secondly, while there are far better athletes and stronger fighters than me, even some who are quicker, they don't have the ring IQ I have. It allows me to dictate.

I can't let other people dictate how I see myself.

You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

Illiterates have to dictate.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV!

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

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

The ideas dictate everything.

I don't let my wardrobe dictate my diet.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

I dictate the pace of my fights and no one else.

We can't let fear steer the way, dictate our lives.

Goals dictate how matches go.

Function influence but does not dictate form

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

My favorite thing that I can do with my iPhone is dictate a letter.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

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

I want to try and be aggressive and dictate the play a little bit.

I remember once doing a benefit for a Jewish charity and wearing an enormous cross. I kind of don't let the audience dictate anything to me. I sort of dictate to them, and they better be on board.

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.

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.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Don't let anyone dictate what you should and shouldn't wear. Do what you want. Who cares?

You can't allow someone's hate to dictate your life.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

It's the fans that dictate what wrestling is. That's the one constant from 1917 to 2017.

Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.

I think the flow of the game will a lot of times dictate what you do.

In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

If I allowed fear to dictate my life, I would not be productive.