Ought Quotes · Page 42

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

— Charles Spurgeon

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

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

— Anthony Trollope

Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

— Gerard Swope

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

— George W. Bush

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

— Anonymous

Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather…

— Karl Popper

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

— C. S. Lewis

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured…

— Joan Robinson

At the end of the day, that physician needs to be in the mix telling patients what their habits ought to be…

— Miles D. White

We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back…

— Mike Pence

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values…

— Cornel West

They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to…

— Andre Benjamin

It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping…

— Sara Paretsky

How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one…

— Learned Hand

I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this…

— Saint Basil

We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not…

— J. Reuben Clark

If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be…

— Louie Gohmert

Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I…

— C. D. Broad

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American…

— George Bernard Shaw

There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

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

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

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

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two…

— Coleman Hawkins

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

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

— James Madison

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

— Jack Valenti

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

— George Nethercutt

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

— Richard Whately

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

— George W. Bush

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

— Orson Welles

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

— George Orwell

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