Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you cant read,… — George W. Bush
Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid… — John F. Kerry
The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense of centralized institutions is that… — John Turner
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America… — Bob Ney
The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- Im a… — George W. Bush
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought… — Barbara Jordan
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. — Toni Morrison
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… — Thomas Paine
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home — Ingvar Kamprad
It is important for us ... to cultivate in our own family a sense that we belong together eternally, that whatever changes outside our home,… — Spencer W. Kimball
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping… — William James
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves… — Walter Raleigh
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. — George Eliot
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own… — Ann Radcliffe
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. — Neville Cardus
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. — Epictetus
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind. — Walker Evans
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence… — Mercy Otis Warren
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to… — Samuel Adams
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among… — Thomas Jefferson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his… — Thomas Jefferson

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