Ought Quotes

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

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.

War ought to be no man's wish.

As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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

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.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

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

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

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

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 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.

All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.

God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live