Quotes of: Ought Keyword

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.

William Rehnquist

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

William Safire

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 th...

The Fire Next Time

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is art itself). And your worrying about this ought not to be a tortured thing - God knows...

Blake Bailey

Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

The Cuckoo's Calling

Poems ought to reflect the the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.

Crossing to Safety

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Damned

Everyday should be Christmas. Christ first loved us, we ought to love one another.

On Eagles Wings:Rise

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

Great Expectations

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

Glottal Stop

But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.

The Hobbit

I think we ought to live happily ever after.

Howl's Moving Castle

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

David McCullough

as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established

1776

Not one of you reflects, that you ought know your Gods before you worship them.

An Apology for Atheism

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Anna Karenina

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.

The Abolition of Man

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

The Historian

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

The Handmaid's Tale