If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition. — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life? — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for… — Frank A. Vanderlip Copy Share Image
The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be!… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime. — Gijs de Vries Copy Share Image
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. — Moliere Copy Share Image
We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
