It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on.… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors… — Bill Press Copy Share Image
To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship -… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out… — Tom Jaine Copy Share Image
Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see… — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and… — William Carey Copy Share Image
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt… — Plato Copy Share Image
People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things… — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls… — Yisroel Salanter Copy Share Image
Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions. — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
