Dictated Quotes

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine

Ignorance, Reason, Whatever

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.
Mitt Romney

America, Said, President

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
Deepak Chopra

Single, Reality, System

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

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

Cannot, Fast, Watch

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
Marcel Proust

Important, Humanity, Lies

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Christopher Morley

Universe, Theology, Briefly

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno

Words, Poor, Language

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
Helena Bonham Carter

Loved, Avoid, Directors

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
Daniel Hannan

Political, Enough, Themselves

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Time, Feeling, Find

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
Sara Blakely

Fashion, Makes, Against

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

Life, Love, Battle

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Chris Evans

Love, Peace, Happiness

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Chris Evans

Peace, Happiness, Acting

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
Lindsey Graham

Leadership, Great, God

I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
Dario Argento

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 seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida

Society, Choice, Either

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Mary McCarthy

Politics, Military, Seems

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
Rob Zombie

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 somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
Penelope Lively

Life, Change, Through

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

Enough, Last, Company

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
Holly Near

Culture, Dominant, Allowing

I can never consent to being dictated to.
John Tyler

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

Book, Writing, Hear

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
Albert Claude

Life, Time, Men

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
Ted Shackelford

Time, Decisions, Television

All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.
Melanie Chisholm

Great, Enough, Themselves

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
David Gill

Regret, Honest, Mistake

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
Ron Jaworski

Character, Justice, Chance

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Dictated Definition

Heraclitus

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us