Ought Quotes · Page 39

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

— Russell D. Moore

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

— Octavia Butler

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

— Matt Lucas

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is…

— Jimmy Page

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

— Alexander Hamilton

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

— Mark Twain

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

— Will Rogers

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

— Florynce Kennedy

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people,…

— Adam Smith

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure…

— Marcel Proust

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected;…

— James Monroe

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up…

— William Blake

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for…

— Thelma Ritter

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say,…

— Evgeny Morozov

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes…

— John McCain

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so…

— Jilly Cooper

I'm not for drunk driving - however, the states ought to decide. Different states have different penalties for drunk driving because they're…

— Tucker Carlson

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish…

— Lech Walesa

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the…

— Mark Twain

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a…

— Marsha Blackburn

I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always…

— Tom Stoppard

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is…

— Winston Churchill

If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess…

— Thomas Jefferson

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only…

— Adam Smith

People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think…

— Rae Foley

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object…

— Plato

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back…

— Charles Kingsley

We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the…

— Johnny Cash

In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question…

— James Madison

There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any…

— Alexander Hamilton

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

— J.R. Miller

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

— Virginia Woolf

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

— Dean Koontz

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

— Clementine Paddleford

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

— John Bercow

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

— Thomas Jefferson

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

— Jimmy Connors

My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.

— Bill Nelson