Ought Quotes

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan)

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

In my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.

The media ought to be just giving a fair shake to everybody.

Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.

You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.