Ought Quotes · Page 2

To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer…

— Matt Mickiewicz

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— John Calvin

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter.…

— John Kasich

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when…

— Ovid

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

— Danica McKellar

When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain…

— Rand Paul

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on…

— Gary Bauer

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

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

If George Bush [Jr.] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last…

— Lawrence Eagleburger

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure…

— Marcel Proust

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I…

— Charles Dickens

Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought…

— Cesare Pavese

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it…

— Ron Paul

Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world!…

— Pope Francis

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the…

— Terry Pratchett

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a…

— August Bournonville

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

— Marie Dressler

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it…

— Alan Dershowitz

You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

— John Green