Best Dictated Sayings
144 Dictated quotes by 132 unique authors
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as…
— Penelope Lively
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That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable,…
— Roxane Gay
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Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group…
— Blanche Barton
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In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago, in…
— Jonathan Gold
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The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it…
— Giacomo Puccini
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a…
— Thomas Paine
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Divorce is a journey that the children involved do not ask to take. They are forced along for a ride where the results are dictated…
— Diane Greene
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
— Seneca the Younger
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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting…
— George Washington
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We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this…
— Jane Goodall
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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
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We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.
— Mitt Romney
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There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them…
— Eckhart Tolle
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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
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated…
— Vannevar Bush
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America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.
— Mitt Romney
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The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of…
— Barry Goldwater
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a…
— Isaac Asimov
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This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is…
— Harry S. Truman
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I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you…
— James Salter
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner…
— Andre Breton
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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
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Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart…
— Allan Kardec
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Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within…
— D. H. Lawrence
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