In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away.… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Every once in a while you ought to kiss a young lady. And every once in a while you ought to kiss… — Jon Miller Copy Share Image
The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to serve as a forum for the people,… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and… — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation… — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image