Quotes of: Ought Keyword

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Ezra Pound

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

Frederic William Farrar

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

Jimmy Connors

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Gaston Leroux

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

George William Norris

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

Jean Rostand

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Don DeLillo

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Daniel Kahneman

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

John Denham

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Jeff Foxworthy

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

John Fowles

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eliza Doolittle: You oughta be stuffed with nails, you ought!

My Fair Lady

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Burt Lancaster

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Adolf Hitler

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Aristotle

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

Birch Bayh