Ought Quotes

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

A liar ought to have a good memory.

What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Education ought to be affordable for everybody. That only advances a society.

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies.

We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the potential advantages are really going to happen as quickly as they ought.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.

Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.

There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely.

My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

What is it between Obama and Iran? That's the question we all ought to have. Because it sure seems to me like Obama's got some sort of affection for that nation.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.