Quotes About Dictation

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did His dictation.

I did not write it. (Uncle Tom's Cabin) God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.

I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.

geniul nu este decât un împrumut: trebuie s?-l meriÈ›i prin mari suferinÈ›e, prin încerc?ri pe care s? le înduri cu modestie È™i fermitate; pân? la urm? sfârÈ™eÈ™ti prin a auzi voci È™i scrii dup? dictare.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

In sum, freedom can run a monetary system as superbly as it runs the rest of the economy. Contrary to many writers, there is nothing special about money that requires extensive governmental dictation. Here, too, free men will best and most smoothly supply all their economic wants. For money as for all other activities of man, "liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

Many people believe that the free market, despite some admitted advantages, is a picture of disorder and chaos. Nothing is "planned," everything is haphazard. Government dictation, on the other hand, seems simple and orderly; decrees are handed down and they are obeyed.

so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.

“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiahís dictation?”

“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”

After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiahís dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiahís dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: