Ought Quotes · Page 43

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

— Alice Mattison

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

— Patricia Schroeder

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

— Pope Leo XIII

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

— Glenn Frey

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

— Jesse Ventura

Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream.

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

— Beryl Markham

Arakawa: I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop…

— Hiromu Arakawa

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything…

— Rita Dove

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what…

— Richard Steele

The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension…

— Maria Montessori

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in…

— Edward M. Lerner

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly…

— Franklin P. Adams

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the…

— Stevie Smith

There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of…

— Scott Lively

Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed…

— William Batchelder Greene

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or…

— Warren Buffett

To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer…

— Matt Mickiewicz

Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and…

— Charles Hard Townes

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till…

— Anonymous

What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something…

— Italo Calvino

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

— Stephen King

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land.…

— Bob Dylan

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

— Lord Chesterfield

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

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

— Henry Ford

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

— J. Budziszewski

Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This…

— Charles Darwin

You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

— Karel Capek

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Ernest Rutherford

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

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

— Samuel Richardson

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

— Wilfred Bion