I Ought Quotes

147 quotes by 126 authors

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an… — Wendell Berry
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. — Edmund Burke
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. — Barbara Bush
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges… — H.G. Wells
I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I… — G. Campbell Morgan
Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If… — Jim Cymbala
I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends. — Malcolm Bradbury
I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any… — Adolf Hitler
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious… — Chapman Cohen
The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy… — Jeff Cooper
I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can never be what I ought to be untilÂ you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in… — John Barth
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? — Lewis Carroll
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would… — Martin Rees
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling — Seneca the Younger

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