Ought Quotes
If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do.
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.
I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?
Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center.
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up business and dirty shops. They ought to go.
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.
I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.