Ought Quotes · Page 22

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

— John Milton

We as actors ought to breathe life into a character and do it seamlessly to connect with the audiences.

— Tridha Choudhury

I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

— Noel Coward

We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what I am going to do.

— Donald Trump

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Augustus William Hare

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

— Maya Angelou

Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds…

— Louis Menand

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether…

— Lord Chesterfield

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be…

— Philip Sidney

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long…

— Ivy Baker Priest

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause…

— Jack Cade

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there…

— William J. Clinton

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

— J. Reuben Clark

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part…

— Peyton Manning

I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy…

— Nick Denton

I mean there are a lot of people - maybe a lot, I know how many - who really thought that when…

— Rush Limbaugh

It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see…

— Steve Reich

My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents…

— Bruce Molsky

And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics,…

— Christopher Columbus

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your…

— Epictetus

Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we…

— Allen W. Wood

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to…

— Abraham Lincoln

Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external…

— Sigmund Freud

“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out…

— Utah Phillips

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the…

— Bertrand Russell

Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through…

— Isaac Asimov

Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

— Evel Knievel

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

— John Green

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

— Josephine Lawrence

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

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

— Hans Rosling

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

— William Rounseville Alger

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.

— Karl Lehenbauer