People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure… — Robert Forman Horton Copy Share Image
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the… — Plato Copy Share Image
I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call… — William James Copy Share Image
Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, that physician needs to be in the mix telling patients what their habits ought to be… — Miles D. White Copy Share Image
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y’all’s ass, — Pat Dye Copy Share Image
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the… — Carson Cistulli Copy Share Image
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected;… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for… — Thelma Ritter Copy Share Image
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish… — Henri La Fontaine Copy Share Image
You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.'… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem.… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
