Ought Quotes

People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it's crazy.

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.

You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.