Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.
Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.
People can change... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way.
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.
Forget the past, think of future, remember God's goodness and His power and ability to take you to where you ought to be and establish you.
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.