Ought Quotes

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.