Ought Quotes

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

Thousands of people die every year of cold, so if we had global warming it would save lives ... We ought to look out for people. The earth can take care of itself.

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.