Quotes of: Ought Keyword

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

George Orwell

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

Harry Essex

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Jonathan Swift

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Jack Kemp

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

Susanne Bier

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Chuck Schumer

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Samuel Goldwyn

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Jack Valenti

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

Arthur Herzog

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

Gijs de Vries

Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.

Beautiful Quotes

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

George W. Bush

If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one.

Alias Grace

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

Wintersmith

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

James Monroe

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Mitch Kapor

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

On the Decay of the Art of Lying

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Robert Herrick

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.

Timothy Noah