Ought Quotes · Page 21

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

— Anonymous

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

— Jennifer Granholm

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

— Juvenal

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

— Adrian Rogers

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

— Thomas Paine

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

— John Keble

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

— Paul Newman

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son…

— George Weigel

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/…

— Francis Bacon

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he…

— Victor Hugo

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

— Andrew Harvey

The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal…

— Shelby Steele

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to…

— Steve Chabot

I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with…

— Gail Collins

I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must…

— Martin Luther

Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having…

— Sam Storms

For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and…

— Ezekiel Hopkins

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it…

— James Madison

We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards…

— Jeb Bush

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the…

— William Howard Taft

It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are…

— Anthony of Sourozh

The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of…

— John Dewey

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and…

— Shirley Jackson

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must…

— William Godwin

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,…

— Edmund Burke

Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however…

— Gregory Palamas

Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to:…

— Noam Chomsky

If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would…

— Henry Parry Liddon

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

— Bette Midler

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

— J. I. Packer

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

— Charles Darwin

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.

— Charles Spurgeon

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

— Francis Bacon

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

— J. C. Watts

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— H. L. Mencken

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

— Stephen Metcalf