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Quotes About Dictate

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.
~ Richard Dawkins
I think the defense is going to dictate how many shots you get.
~ Channing Frye
Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.
~ Jared Polis
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.
~ Mike Huckabee
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
~ Bernie Worrell
Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV!
~ Benedict Wong
For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique and complicated guy, so the music itself had to be unique and complicated.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.
~ Kelley O'Hara
It's the fans that dictate what wrestling is. That's the one constant from 1917 to 2017.
~ Terry Funk
I try to read spinners and dictate to them, but they know very quickly if you're not reading them or if you're not confident.
~ Brian Lara
I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can.
~ Kim Reynolds
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
~ Rick Atkinson
The ultimate expression of sovereignty largely resides in the power and capacity to dictate who is able to live and who must die. To kill or to let live thus constitutes sovereignty's limits, its principal attributes. To be sovereign is to exert one's control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power.
~ Achille Mbembe
You cannot control the behavior of others, and you cannot dictate the choices they make. But you have total control over which aspects of them you are selecting to magnify in your experience. This is where your true authority lives. "My Father gives all power unto me
~ Alan Cohen
But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.
~ Donald Hall
Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
~ Don McLean
I seem to operate on the unconscious premise that if I allow inertia rather than desire to dictate my actions, i will live longer.
~ Ann Marlowe
Sanders insists the party adopt 'the most progressive platform ever passed' at its Philadelphia convention. Since when does the runner-up get to dictate the platform?
~ William M. Daley
But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.
~ Lysander Spooner
September 9, Washington had had enough. "If the laws are to be trampled upon with impunity," he said, "and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government.
~ Ron Chernow
Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. [ Don't allow religious hooligans to dictate terms ( The Times of India , January 16, 2008)]
~ Salman Rushdie
Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.
~ Lupe Fiasco
I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.
~ Kyrsten Sinema