Quotes About Dictates

Memory dictates and history writes

Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway.

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement.

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

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.

As long as humans follow the dictates of the mind they will remain separated from their spiritual essence and continue to be manipulated.

Del mismo modo que "el corazón tiene razones que la razón desconoce", la conciencia tiene razones que el corazón desconoce, y para ciertos seres humanos los dictados de su conciencia suelen estar por encima de los dictados de su corazón. Al fin y al cabo, con demasiada frecuencia los dictados del corazón no son más que los dictados del deseo recubiertos de un ligero barniz de romanticismo.

Debes prestarle atención a tu corazón, aunque no sepas adonde van a conducirte sus dictados. Hacer otra cosa sería abrirle la puerta a la tristeza.

For any film or any web show, the story dictates everything. If it is a good story, it obviously has good characters in it.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.

Socrates The philosopher offered us a way out of two powerful delusions: that we should always or never listen to the dictates of public opinion. To follow his example, we will best be rewarded if we strive instead to listen to the dictates of reason

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 of machines.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.

es decir las órdenes, las costumbres y los caprichos.

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.

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.

When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you're not working in that format, it's fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself.

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

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.