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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already… — Leon Daudet 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 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
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
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
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad;… — Plato Copy Share Image
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . .… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction… — Nicholas Hawksmoor Copy Share Image
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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