This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Prices don't merely reflect what people think things ought to cost today; they also reflect what people expect items to cost tomorrow. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. — John Witherspoon Copy Share Image
When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States,… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold:… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that… — Horace Copy Share Image
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image