Ought Quotes

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.

We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas, So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

[President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics.... He ought to do his reaching out to the people who elected him.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.

I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.