Ought Quotes

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We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that. — Thomas Jefferson
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making… — Willa Cather
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. — Anton Chekhov
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building. — George W. Bush
Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them. — Margaret Thatcher
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation… — Paul Wellstone
Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked… — Thomas Jefferson
If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could… — Peter Lynch
We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because… — Al Gore
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will… — Damon Knight
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one… — Mark Twain
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will… — Joseph Campbell
Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think. — Darcy O'Brien
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. — Leo Tolstoy
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. — Anthony Trollope
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought… — Kwame Nkrumah

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