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Do not pity me, Beatrice De Novo. My life has been as fate dictated, and now I am master of it. Do not waste your regret on the past. — Elizabeth Hunter

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

But it is clear to me that our survival - both yours and mine - will be dictated by how well you and I can work together."
"So we're screwed? — Devon Monk

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away. — Stephen Fry

Sometimes our future is
dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Babatunde Adebimpe

The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion. — Sarah Noffke

During the really tough first couple of years in prison, I felt like the 23rd Psalm was dictated by the Lord specifically for POWs. — Leo Thorsness

We must remember that beauty is dictated from the spectators opinion therefore anyone can be beautiful depending on who is watching you — Yolanda De Iuliis

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

Well certainly not having any choice - having your entire life dictated by others ... — Sheena Iyengar

No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss. — Eric Schneiderman

A world where love can be banned. Your fate is dictated by the highest bidder. Exports have no choice. — Jill Thrussell

You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked. — Douglas Trumbull

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

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street. — Rick Perry

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. — Jane Austen

Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing. — Billy Graham

You are only free when your happiness is not dictated by your needs. — Gabriella Kortsch

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer

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

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. — Christian Louboutin

I can never consent to being dictated to. — John Tyler

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass. — Marlon Brando

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. — Chris Evans

If your life is going to be dictated by what's comfortable, your life will stink. — Laura Schlessinger

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. IMPORTANT rules are dictated by our hearts. — Paulo Coelho

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. — Marvin Gaye

Homosexuality is not a political choice; it is dictated by the imperatives of desire. — Rictor Norton

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. — Salman Rushdie

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to. — Bernard Hopkins

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

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

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor. — Charles M. Schwab

Love shouldn't be dictated — Gail Carson Levine

God's love was intended to be demonstrated, not dictated. — Richard Stearns

In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment. — Amy Heckerling

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard. — Israel Shenker

When it came to the strong-willed women in my life, I found it was sometimes easiest to nod and agree with whatever they dictated was best. — Richelle Mead

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

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. — Seneca The Younger

His steps were dictated by the demon who delights in destroying manfs reason and dignity. — Thomas Mann

He had simply let his life be dictated to him by others, following one man after the next, the way he had been taught to do. — Hanya Yanagihara

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. — John Lydon

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

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

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting. — Francesco Clemente

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

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

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

The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would. — Jill Mansell

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee. — Keith Rabois

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

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers. — Anthony Esolen

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

Is morality not an internal force, and if it is, are principles then to be dictated or felt? — R.A. Salvatore

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

The avenues he had taken as a young man had pretty much dictated what the remaining years of his life would be like. — David Baldacci

The more we fill ourselves from His life-giving love, the less we will be dictated by the grabby-ness of the flesh. — Lysa TerKeurst

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

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

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

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. — Marcel Proust

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

Marco Polo dictated his Travels in French, — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

In an entirely causal universe, what a person thinks is dictated before that person even exists. — 'Trick Slattery

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

Sometimes the word dictated the melody. — Andrew Bird

Each move is dictated by the previous one
that is the meaning of order — Tom Stoppard

Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate. — Jerry Colonna

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

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. — Sara Blakely

sometimes responsibilities dictated your life, and you just had to make the best of what you had. — Christy Barritt

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

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

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball. — Tommy Docherty

You don't kick a man when he is down," Bush dictated. "You don't revel in his demise. You don't pile on in life. — Jon Meacham

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change? — Ched Myers

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