Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?' — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to… — Teresa Wright Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I don't see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me,… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an… — Todd Walker Copy Share Image
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some… — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others. — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
When I was playing with the children, I felt I ought to be working, and when I was working, I felt I… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth,… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
![“[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.” quote by John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb8/john-dryden-491_action_t-he-famous-rules-which-the-french-call_609921.jpg)
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