#dictate

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#her #judge #mind #motions #own

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully. ↗

— Spike Lee

#i #stevie #stevie wonder #successfully #wonder

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

#am #artists #because #board #conventions

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#dictated #ethical #even #honorable #military

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#dictated #signed #theology #universe

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#common #dictate #foreign #individual #magical

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#both #deficit #deficit reduction #dictates #fairness

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

#dictates #how #i #i see #i think

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

#certain #certain ways #children #dictates #even

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

— Marguerite Gardiner

#dictates #dreams #fashion #here