Ought Quotes · Page 15

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

— Marie de France

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

— Fanny Kemble

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

— Huston Smith

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

— Mark Twain

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

— John Calvin

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

— S. Truett Cathy

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

— John Kasich

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other,…

— George Mason

It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much…

— George Washington

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in…

— John Wesley

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to…

— Sir John Richard Hicks

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

— Hillary Clinton

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent…

— Karl Rove

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

— Florence Nightingale

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You…

— Chuck Grassley

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of…

— Florence Nightingale

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term…

— Anonymous

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and…

— Francis Bacon

I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to…

— Charlotte Charke

In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences…

— Lydia M. Child

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells…

— Julian of Norwich

We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…

— C. S. Lewis

I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of…

— William Wilberforce

Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought…

— Alain de Botton

I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future.…

— Peter Cundill

Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be.…

— Charles Spurgeon

Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to…

— Marva Dawn

One reason I like to talk about Heaven, think about Heaven and read about Heaven is because, after all, that's where we're…

— David Berg

We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

— Steve Scalise

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie…

— Toni Morrison

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

— Vespasian

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

— Hillary Clinton

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

— William Feather

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

— John D. Voelker

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

— Rebecca West

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship,

— Cruz Bustamante