Top 413 Dictates Quotes & Sayings

Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

The ideal woman is one that suffers quietly, dictates patriarchy.

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.

The material dictates the approach.

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It's no longer the genre that dictates it.

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

Music dictates culture, and culture dictates music; they go hand in hand.

Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

If the best that we have is an iso, or if my personnel on my team dictates that that is really good, then that's what we're going to do.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.

Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.

Common sense dictates that a trace gas needed for life on the planet would not be the cause for destroying life on the planet. Common sense dictates that what has happened before without man can happen again with man. Common sense would dictate that you not believe me, or any one else, but go look for YOURSELF.

Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it's not just what I do in the gym but it's also an accepted lifestyle.

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

As president the law dictates how I do my job. The same law dictates how a judge should function.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

My faith dictates a whole lot of what I'll do.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

History dictates that winning three consecutive championships is very difficult.

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're going to be able to pay back toward a student loan responsibly if you're doing it yourself after you have a job? That dictates the amount of money you can borrow. That dictates the school you can go to, if you can even go to a four-year college at all.

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

Content dictates form and style.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

When you win the toss and bowl, the result always dictates whether you'll be criticised or applauded.