One Ought Quotes

64 One Ought quotes by 50 unique authors

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared. — Dante Alighieri
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life… — Bertrand Russell
When writing goes painfully, when itâ€™s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)â€“then naturally one ought… — Joyce Carol Oates
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the… — Virginia Woolf
Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing… — Ford Madox Ford
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is… — Bertrand Russell
Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people. — Susanna Clarke
What iâ€™m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on… — Elif Safak
It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with… — James A. Baldwin
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access;… — John Edward Williams
Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as… — Leo Tolstoy
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. — Winston Churchill
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should… — Iris Murdoch
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure. — Barton Gellman
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in… — Diogenes
When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the… — William Temple Sr
For life its like a good accent one ought for a good language — Unknown Author

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