#dictate

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. ↗

— Albert Camus

#desire #dictate #his #hope #live

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 write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. ↗

— John Mayall

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

— Mary McCarthy

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The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#country #dictates #every #our #policy

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

— Christopher Morley

#dictated #signed #theology #universe

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. ↗

— Holly Near

#culture #dictated #dominant #i #perspective