Ought Quotes · Page 25

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

— Karl Lehenbauer

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

— John G. Schmitz

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

— George Herbert

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

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

— William Rounseville Alger

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're…

— Eric Maisel

Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to…

— James Madison

Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought…

— Frank Medlicott

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty…

— John F. Kerry

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from…

— Richard Hugo

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a…

— Dorothy Richardson

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is…

— Margaret Fuller

You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On…

— Charles Spurgeon

You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have.…

— Calvin Coolidge

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one…

— Thomas Jefferson

Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

When you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell on them or on anything relating to…

— Lorenzo Scupoli

As far as the media is concerned, they ought to hate me. Before I came along, they had a monopoly. Before I…

— Rush Limbaugh

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is…

— Cato the Younger

There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters…

— Steven Moffat

It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication…

— James Madison

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and…

— Aristotle

The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…

— Charles Lyell

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

— Hans Rosling

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

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Donald Trump

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

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

— Evel Knievel

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

— Benjamin Franklin

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

— Napoleon Bonaparte