I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few. — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
There ought to be a better way than government to run the world. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are. — Gerard Swope Copy Share Image
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves. — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all… — Charles James Copy Share Image
If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue,… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of… — James Henley Thornwell Copy Share Image
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence. — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
