Ought Quotes

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady for a while.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

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.

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

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.

Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

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

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.

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

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.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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.

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.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

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

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 wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.