Sentence examples for past dictates from inspiring English sources

In prison, your past dictates your worth.

For more than two centuries, we have refused to believe that our past dictates our future, that our social standing decides our vocation and that our family name determines our legacy.

Never let your past dictate your future".

Arthur Brisbane: Mr. McDonald shows how social mores of the past dictate the demography of the obituary page today.

Each clings to their quiver of grievances against the other, letting the past dictate the future to the detriment of both countries.

Bannon is Dickensian in the way his presence — and nominal absence — haunts the Trump presidency, defining its past, dictating its present and damning its future.

My story is about the hint of magic making you believe things are possible, rather than the future or the past dictating what happens.

The past dictated the choice in this way as well: W., who had loafed through long years when he could have been prepping for the presidency, felt he needed some heaviness on the ticket.

I refuse to allow those unpleasantries of the past dictate my future.

You don't have to let your past dictate the decisions you make today.

When you think about who you are, does the past dictate the present?