Ought Quotes

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

We ought to make the pie higher.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.

The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.