Ought Quotes · Page 91

There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray.…

— Samuel Chadwick

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

— Joan Didion

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that…

— Harriet Martineau

We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and…

— James Carville

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your…

— Epictetus

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to…

— Ernest Bevin

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

— Hillary Clinton

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if…

— Nina Totenberg

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

— John Witherspoon

The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community,…

— John Kasich

So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate…

— Ogden Nash

We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life…

— Mike Pence

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you…

— Annie Besant

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

— Gaston Leroux

The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the…

— Boethius

We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim…

— Maximilien Robespierre

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

— Anthony Trollope

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody…

— Donald Kagan

Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to…

— David Quammen

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

— Louis Pasteur

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should,…

— Samuel Lover

Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s…

— Charles Spurgeon

It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in…

— St. Vincent

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

— James Madison