A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
Joseph Lancaster

Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.
Paul Begala

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Augustus Y. Napier

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
Colin Powell

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Marguerite Gardiner

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.
Adolf Hitler

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
David Lloyd

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 I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
Michel Gondry

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
John Mayall

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Hans Hofmann

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
Ezra Stiles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
Nicolas Roeg

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Hjalmar Schacht

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.
Graeme Murphy

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
Sheryl Crow

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
Anthony de Mello

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