Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who… — Mark Twain 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
We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better. — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions. — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world. — John Paul DeJoria 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
Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
We’re Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television. You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things… — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it. — Craig Benson Copy Share Image
We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes… — Al-Kindi Copy Share Image
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image