Quotes of: Ought Keyword

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

William James

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Wangari Maathai

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Walter Scott

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.

Arlen Specter

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

Warren Giles

It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as though it had never occurred to us, and they’re disappointed if we can’t share their surprise when they have discovered that a hen lays an...

Theatre

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it...

Père Goriot

Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created...

Weighed and Wanting

I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I th...

C.S. Lewis

[fencing] Inigo Montoya: You are wonderful. Man in Black: Thank you; I've worked hard to become so. Inigo Montoya: I admit it, you are better than I am. Man in Black: Then why are you smiling? Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don't know. M...

The Princess Bride

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Civilization and Its Discontents

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The Complete Essays

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

CryoBurn

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Catch-22

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

The Duke's Children

Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.

A Dash of Magic

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

Death in the Stocks

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Emma

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Girl Meets God