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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus

Hope, Live, Desire

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams

Men, Confidence, Creative

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur

Words, Country, Honor

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke

Long, Living, Soul

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch

Speak, Writers, Windows

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
Shania Twain

Life, Best, Hope

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel Washington

Faith, Peace, Happiness

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
David Herbert Lawrence

Mind, Judge, Perfect

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
David Lynch

True, Dead, Ideas

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.
Prince

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
Camille Paglia

Eye, Composer, Madonna

There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.
Jeremy Lin

Trust, God, Fight

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LaToya Jackson

Life, Parents, Control

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
Dana Plato

Life, Experience, Heart

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
Spike Lee

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Friedrich Schiller

Power, Heart, Emperor

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck

Human, Ego, Immediate

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Work, Real, Him

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford

Political, America, Again

I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Thinking, Wine, Deal

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
Maya Lin

Lost, Away, Viewers

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J. G. Ballard

Science, Technology, Around

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Great, Parents, Two

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Living, Strange, Reason

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
Chris Evans

Life, Peace, Happiness

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Cannot, Disagree, Condemn

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.
Ray Lewis

Faith, God, Him

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
Ernestine Rose

Husband, Wife, Justice

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.
Tori Spelling

Children, Pretty, After

If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
Barry Diller

Somebody, Wants, Price

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