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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
I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
— Henry James
Our thoughts dictate how we feel; so it is important to recognize that we are as we think we are
— Jeremy Aldana
Your mood shouldn't dictate your manners.
— Turcois Ominek
Function influence but does not dictate form
— Eero Saarinen
When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.
— Thomas Jones
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
— Al McGuire
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
Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value.
— Tiffany L. Jackson
I just want to show her that her life is worth living, that she can't let her past dictate her future.
— S.A. Rolls
The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
— Camille Paglia
I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.
— Guy Pearce
Customers dictate how the firm organizes itself to best create the solutions they require.
— Marion Debruyne
Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.
— Jillian Bullock
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
— Jane Leavy
As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
— Rachel Kushner
Don't let technology dictate your life.
— Maria Ressa
Batman never questions the logic of letting a childhood experience dictate his entire life.
— Chuck Klosterman
Love cannot stifle nor can it dictate. Either of those circumstances will turn a tender feeling into something ugly (Adam Ashworth).
— Cynthia Wicklund
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
— Douglas MacArthur
We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.
— Jen Pollock Michel
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
— Michael McKean
If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's approval dictate your actions
— Christopher Paolini
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
— Ed Koch
Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou
— Mark Kurlansky
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
— Barbara Kruger
The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.
— Tanith Lee
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
— Bernie Worrell
I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.
— Brendan Rodgers
The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions.
— Hal Elrod
No man has a right to dictate another man's inner life - the furniture inside his skull.
— A.S. Byatt
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
— D.H. Lawrence
The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.
— Rod Serling
Northwest adage that "the weather doesn't dictate what you do - it only dictates what you wear while you do it.
— M.D. Grayson
God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.
— Jonah Books
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I will not allow anxiety dictate the terms of my life
— Jeanette Purkis
Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?
— Wilbur Smith
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
— Denzel Washington
Human beings, regenerate or unregenerate, have neither the right nor the competence to dictate to a sovereign God how He is to be worshipped.
— Joseph C. Morecraft III
We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.
— Otto Schily
From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Never let the details take over the story; let the story dictate what details to use.
— Krista D. Ball
Did God dictate every single word [in Torah]? I don't know!
— Dennis Prager
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
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
— Dallin H. Oaks
What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
— James Maslow
Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you — T.I. Harris
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you — T.I. Harris
It is values that dictate your responses.
— Sunday Adelaja
You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.
— Gary Hopkins
The sketch should lead the cutting pattern, which is to say content should dictate style, which is to say that in TV the writer is king.
— Tina Fey
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
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
Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
— Don McLean
Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.
— Simone Elkeles
Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?
— Simon S. Tam
Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.
— Rumer Willis
Collaborate, don't dictate.
— George A. Romero
If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.
— Patrick Dawson
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
— LaToya Jackson
Your situation does not dictate your direction.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Geography bends to the dictate of will.
— Michelle Sagara
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
— Sinclair Lewis
My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.
— Agatha Christie
in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society
— Francis A. Schaeffer
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
Don't be a leader to dictate, but be a person whom everyone wants to emulate and follow.
— Debasish Mridha
I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
— L'Wren Scott
the choices we make dictate the life we lead
— Danny De Vito
If you let fear dictate your decisions, you will live defensively, reactively, cautiously. Living by faith is playing offense with your life.
— Mark Batterson
Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
— Magic Johnson
You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.
— Grant Von Harrison
You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell.
— Mario Puzo
Never let others dictate the directions that you pick in your life since they are not the ones living your life.
— John Rogers
I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.
— Dave Douglas
Never say never, dear.
You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate — Ellen Hopkins
You might be surprised at what you can do, should circumstances dictate — Ellen Hopkins