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