Ought Quotes · Page 36

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

— Tim Berners-Lee

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

— Jesse Ventura

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

— Glenn Frey

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

— Ernest Rutherford

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

— Mark Twain

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

— Lewis Carroll

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

— George W. Bush

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a…

— Giacomo Casanova

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If…

— Robert Barclay

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt…

— Saint Augustine

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to…

— Ernest Bevin

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter.…

— John Kasich

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I…

— Philip Pullman

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

— James Madison

He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the…

— Vance Palmer

[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In…

— Georges Bataille

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a…

— Russ Feingold

So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm…

— John Irving

Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world!…

— Pope Francis

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun;…

— Henry Ford

I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are…

— James Clerk Maxwell

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions.…

— Lord Chesterfield

The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then…

— J. Budziszewski

The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it,…

— George Washington

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will…

— James A. Baldwin

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

— Stephen King

May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an…

— James Madison

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

— Richard Whately

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

— George Nethercutt

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

— Orson Welles

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

— Arundhati Roy

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

— George Orwell

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

— Pope Leo XIII

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

— Patricia Schroeder