Ought Quotes · Page 103

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're…

— Victoria Moran

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run…

— William Howard Taft

When you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell on them or on anything relating to…

— Lorenzo Scupoli

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for…

— Leon Panetta

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.

— Mike Huckabee

Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and…

— Ed Cunningham

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it,…

— Billy Bob Thornton

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

— Hans Rosling

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an…

— Todd Walker

A great country ought not to make little wars.

— Duke of Wellington

In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must…

— William Jay Youmans

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

— Pope John Paul II

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

— Octavia Butler

Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of…

— Linda Gray

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That…

— Abraham Lincoln

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

— Eugene Ionesco

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it…

— Will Rogers

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

— Augustus William Hare

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that…

— Tim Walberg

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

— Stephen Baxter

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I…

— Richard Stallman

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to…

— Andre Maurois

There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be…

— Smith Wigglesworth

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control.…

— John Holdren