Dictates Quotes

209 Dictates quotes by 184 unique authors

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit… — Tobias Dantzig
I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England… — Gael Garcia Bernal
I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see… — Jeff Buckley
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and… — Michel Gondry
... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in… — June Jordan
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This… — Stanley Milgram
You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates. — Anthony Rizzo
A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and… — Marc MacYoung
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and… — James Joyce
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. — Paul Gauguin
Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the… — Christopher Love
And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make… — William Wilberforce
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente
As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its… — Richard Diebenkorn
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then… — E. M. Forster
The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason,… — Robert E. Lee
Capital dictates the fate of humanity. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates… — Donald A. Norman
What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. — Alexander Pope
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan
Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you… — Dawn French
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you. — Grimes
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. — Lawrence Durrell

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