Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.
Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics
To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
Your history doesn't need to dictate your destiny
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.
Don't let technology dictate your life.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
Goals dictate how matches go.
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this. "
The fact that our largest presence in the world is our massive military is going to dictate how we engage with the world.
So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
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.