I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the… — Fisher Ames 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
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
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
If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of… — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The definition of relationships ought to be left up to the states and that proper protections can be put in place for… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average… — Jeffrey Pfeffer 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
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
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
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
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
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
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
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
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples — Henri La Fontaine Copy Share Image
There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all… — Billy Nungesser Copy Share Image
Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image