An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do;… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A… — Saadi Copy Share Image
It is important for us also to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that’s when votes started being cast with emotion… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for… — James Payn Copy Share Image
A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Thousands of people die every year of cold, so if we had global warming it would save lives ... We ought to… — Duncan Hunter Copy Share Image
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing… — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible…people ought to be asking, 'What are… — Patrick Caddell Copy Share Image
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
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