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Quotes About Dictate

We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
~ Sam Wood
I quite like being aggressive and horrible which gives you more confidence to dictate over strikers and to make them feel they have had a frustrating game when they've walked off the pitch, feeling very down.
~ Chris Smalling
It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.
~ Israel Shenker
Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.
~ Mao Zedong
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.
~ Rush Limbaugh
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
~ Benjamin Carson
Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?
~ Simon S. Tam
The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.
~ Paul Kagame
At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.
~ Albert Speer
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
~ Alex Cox
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
~ Hans Haacke
I cannot have a concept of football where everything is based on the opposition. We have to dictate the game, we have to be the ones taking the initiative, and we have to entertain the people coming to watch us.
~ Mikel Arteta
I don't know what my record's going to be. I can't dictate it. I mean, obviously I have to pitch well, but it also takes the guys at the plate to show up as well.
~ Max Scherzer
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
~ Rachel Kushner
Our mind speak to our souls about the lifestyle we should have. Nobody can dictate our souls because we only have control of our own character and ambition.
~ Saaif Alam
No one from abroad can dictate to us whether Poles are allowed to defend themselves against slandering.
~ Andrzej Duda
Mike puts us into trance, pours language - definitions, idioms, concepts - into us for moments that feel like hours... then we dictate at once what he has poured into us, while it's still fresh. But it can't be just anybody. It requires a sharp accent and the ability to join trance rapport and then spill out the results. Sam, for example, has everything but the accent - he manages, God knows how, to speak Martian with a Bronx accent. Can't use him, it would cause endless errata.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
What you can't enforce, do not command.
~ Sophocles
It's insane how much press my Instagram will get. It's weird, in a way, that I can dictate the agenda - but I love being able to have a say in all of that.
~ Selena Gomez
I think it's not up to Congress to dictate what the right amount of diversity is, but I think it's Congress' place to ask the question, to any industry, in talking about what's going on out there. Is there a lack of preparation of the community to be ready to be involved in that industry?
~ Tony Cardenas
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
~ David Lynch
This is exactly why Barstool Sports has to exist. We're one of the few places - maybe the only place - on the Internet where we don't let agendas dictate what we do.
~ Dave Portnoy