Top 306 Dictated Quotes & Sayings

Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.

I don't want to wear what every other women wears. I won't be dictated to.

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

In India, I don't think any woman here is dictated what to wear, how to wear, whom to meet, when to meet... I am of the opinion, I don't think anybody is dictated here; you are not told.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

It's an uncommon phenomenon, but Mahesh's popularity has never been dictated by the success of his films.

We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct.

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

I'm a real believer in getting on with the job you have - anything that happens in the future is dictated by what you do now.

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

Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

Argentina should grow with a project of its own and implemented by Argentines, not dictated by foreigners with old recipes that always fail.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into their hearts by the Almighty, who sits enthroned in the midst of the heavens; although unknown to them, it was dictated by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as good as I could ask for.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.

Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in bed.

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.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Sunday is the only day where I can kind of do my own thing and not have it dictated by the news cycle.

At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.