Ought Quotes

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

War ought to be no man's wish.

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible