Ought Quotes

Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

Cucumber and bergamot," Clary said. "Is there anything else you hate that I ought to know about?" Jace looked at Dorothea over the rim of his teacup. "Liars," he said.

Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground. “Camille’s carpet,” Magnus protested. “It’s blood,” said Will. “She ought to be thrilled.

Someone ought to write a novel about me.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.

Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what I am going to do.

Hillary Clinton ought to be ashamed of herself.