For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to…

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…

— Suze Orman

“It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.”

— Sunday Adelaja

One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Anonymous

“It is the heart which dictates, which rules, which lets us live and die.”

— F. Sionil José

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

— Pauly Shore

“I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates…

— Jean Cocteau

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

— Tahar Rahim

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

— Mitt Romney

“Our attitude to others dictates God’s attitude to us”

— Sunday Adelaja

The most successful politicians are the ones who embrace their best traits while turning their liabilities into loveable attributes. And yet, many a candidate…

— Chuck Todd

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

— George Clinton

Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even…

— David Mixner

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

— Jimmy Smits

Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its…

— Didier Sornette