Ought Quotes · Page 6

Someone ought to write a novel about me,

— Catherynne M. Valente

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

— Edith Wharton

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

— Pythagoras

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

— Tom Stoppard

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

— August Bournonville

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

— Arthur Herzog

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

— J. C. Ryle

We ought to consider the end in everything.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

— John Denham

It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

— Saint Francis de Sales

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

— James A. Michener

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

— Os Guinness

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

— John Morley

I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.

— Charles Fillmore

We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.

— Mitch McConnell

“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and…

— Anonymous

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought…

— Chris Thile

We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what…

— Allen W. Wood

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

— Jack Kemp

It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be…

— Dr. Seuss

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago,…

— Oliver North

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods…

— Pope John Paul II

We had global warming between 1940 and 1998. Since then, we haven't had a rise in temperature. That doesn't mean we don't…

— Chuck Grassley

The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally…

— Hannah Woolley

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of…

— Ishmael Reed

Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only…

— Will Rogers

Never allow the cross to lose it’s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth…

— Brandon Cox

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded…

— Socrates

Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that…

— Alex Toth

The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us…

— Michel de Montaigne

How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as…

— Watchman Nee

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because…

— Barack Obama

You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -…

— Noam Chomsky

All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun;…

— Henry Ford

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions.…

— Lord Chesterfield