Famous Quotes & Sayings

We reject user fees. The size and scope and complexity and cost of the air transportation system today is directly dictated by the commercial carriers.

Harry Sinden

The position we find ourselves in relative to the post-season has dictated that a change would be made. Our judgment was that it would be unfair to Mike O'Connell to continue working at this job once this decision had been made.

There are some details that need to be worked out (in determining) exactly what form of coalition government we're going to get. But essentially, the message for financial markets is 'yes -- reform,' but it's not going to be dictated by the conservative LDP.

We started flat. We had a little letdown and some fatigue from Tuesday. Princeton dictated the match. Our passing was not as good as it was against Lincoln. We got down by five points in the fifth game and the kids still came back. We had a good crowd. The fans were really good.

We did exactly what we wanted to do. The pace was what we wanted, we rebounded the ball pretty well and didn't give them many second-chance opportunities. I told the kids we dictated the tempo, we just had to make shots and we didn't.

Mark Leibovich

Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you're out of office, I guess you're freed from those checks and balances.

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.

Simon Mawer

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

Tessa Thompson

I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together.

Brooks Bollinger

He had some great plays today. I don't think that it was anything we specifically tried to do, but it's just what the defense dictated a couple of times.

We expect to stabilize the price but price is dictated by the market.

We've got to handle their pressure, we can't turn the ball over. We have to dictate the tempo of the game and not let them do that. We can get up and down the court too, and we'll trap and pressure them and do our thing. We are not going to change the way we play, but we will make some adjustments that will be minor and dictated by our strengths.

I don't know that I've seen a team not score in the first quarter of a varsity game. Our defense was just super and dictated the flow. And Salisbury obviously had an off night.

Rove McManus

He rules the country by fear and you can see the Government here wanting to do the same thing, but what's the point? History has dictated you can have all the security measures in the world with all these people taking their shoes off and dropping their nail files into boxes before they get on to a plane and, guess what, the terrorist will be on the train. You can't make people be afraid all the time. It is no way to live your life and no way to govern a country.

Based upon parameters that are dictated by a court settlement, the attorney general often consults with the governor, but the final determination as to how the monies are returned to the people of the state lies with the Attorney General's Office, again, based upon the parameters that are dictated by the court.

E. B. White

Basically, when you play the top teams, you need nine players ready to go. We knew that going in, but it was unfortunate that the fouls dictated the game.

Tony Scott

I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.

I loved creating a series about the four Cabot sisters, who were not content to let their destinies be dictated to them. In 'The Trouble With Honor,' this desire became especially urgent when the sisters were faced with the prospect of losing their place in society. Eldest sister Honor led the charge. They were undaunted!

Chris Evans

I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

Chris Evans

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

He was the aggressor the entire match. He just got caught out of position once and that was the difference. I thought he dictated the entire match.

Long gone are those days where the studio dictated what they could wear, where they could go, and with whom they could be seen. It was programmed.

Judge Casey said his ruling was dictated by a 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2000, which held that Roe v. Wade protects partial-birth abortion.

It all started with our defense letting their go-to players get the ball and take wide-open shots. Purdue just really brought it tonight. They dictated (to) us.

I think you'll find that minimum wage is pretty much dictated by the market.

I think the game situation probably dictated the way I was prepared to play today,

I think the flow of the game dictated what we do and the veer was good to us. And when they came up to stop the veer, we were able to hit on play action.

I think the conditions today favored us. Really, it was the conditions that dictated the difficulty of the hole, and today it was perfect, so we could get it out there.

Steve Klein

I thought that a good deal of his coverage was dictated by fear of losing access. And I think that a lot of sportswriters, especially at community papers, are concerned about that - and it's a legitimate concern, and a legitimate problem.

I thought our serving dictated the pace of the game. We were able to take them out of their first-tempo offense.

Felicity Huffman

I saw that some people who were new into the feminine world weren't great at putting on makeup. So I decided that Bree wouldn't know the right base color and didn't know how to go pick up makeup at the store and is embarrassed about it anyway and doesn't like being out in public and hides most of the time. So those things dictated how I ended up looking.

I saw Scott missed his putt at 18 and that dictated my strategy on 18. I knew I could three-putt and that's what I did. It's very gratifying to come to a place like this and win.

Right now our flood threat is ... dictated by what kind of snow pack is in the mountains.