Ought Quotes · Page 32

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

— Rebecca West

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship,

— Cruz Bustamante

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

— Mark Twain

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

— Huston Smith

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

— John Calvin

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

— S. Truett Cathy

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

— John Kasich

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart…

— Oscar Romero

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows…

— Thomas More

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us…

— Edmund Burke

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

— John Engler

What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that…

— George Bernard Shaw

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

— Theodor Adorno

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and…

— Edgar Wilson Nye

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never…

— Gore Vidal

Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some…

— Andy Wilkinson

I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will…

— Harry S. Truman

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money…

— Elizabeth I

...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so…

— P. G. Wodehouse

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement…

— Noam Chomsky

We live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. We shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get…

— Dick Cheney

But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any…

— Calvin Coolidge

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which…

— Jonathan Swift

It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as…

— Thomas Paine

The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You…

— Condoleezza Rice

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the…

— James Madison

Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and…

— Daniel Pauly

We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

— Steve Scalise

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie…

— Toni Morrison

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

— John Anderson

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

— Doris Lessing

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

— Sydney J. Harris

You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.

— Cherie Priest

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

— Andre Gide