Ought Quotes

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.

He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.

Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true.

The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.

His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.