Ought Quotes

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

We ought to consider the end in everything.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not!

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to.

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

You ought not be afraid of nuclear, but respectful of it. Yes, it has dangers, but it also has benefits. If not for nuclear, much of the medicine that's saving lives today would not be in existence.

You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.