When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
