I Ought Quotes

147 I Ought quotes by 123 unique authors

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch… — Matthew Macfadyen
I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you… — Jeffery Deaver
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine… — Charles Darwin
As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something. — John Stossel
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. — Harold Pinter
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what… — Wes Anderson
Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am… — Marie Curie
I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes… — Celia Imrie
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude?… — Pythagoras
The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything… — Saint Basil
People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not! — Jeff Garcia
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. — Bette Davis
It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought… — Tom Hodgkinson
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."… — Lewis Carroll
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize… — Robert Harris
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is… — Charlotte Bronte
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political… — Philip K. Dick
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in… — John Newton
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and… — Franz Kafka
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came… — C.S. Lewis
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little… — Jane Austen
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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