Ought Quotes

Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

I think that where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas we have to find them for ourselves.

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make a difference in our lives here and now.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.