Quotes of: Ought Keyword

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers

America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her .

Walt Whitman

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

Rodney Stark

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all t...

The Fire Next Time

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how...

An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well a...

The Imitation of Christ

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

Gilead

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

Gary Johnson

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Geoffrey Fisher

We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the surrounding ones?

Sendhil Mullainathan

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Simone Weil

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

Killosophy

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

Manhattan

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Self-Reliance

Being in love shows a person how he ought to be.

Select Tales

Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

You Are Not a Gadget

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card