I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion -… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out. — John Piper Copy Share Image
[On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
"Do you not quarrel, brother Heber?" says one. No, I do not. But; when a woman begins to dispute me, about nine… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn… — Dave Obey Copy Share Image
I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image