The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. — Josephus Copy Share Image
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind. — Socrates Copy Share Image
What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely… — Peter Tait Copy Share Image
I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along… — Horace Copy Share Image
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
[President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics… He ought to do his reaching out… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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