Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies. — Ellen Page
I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You… — Matthew Macfadyen
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or… — Andy Rooney
Let's face it many on the political right believe this President ought not to be there. They oppose him not for his policies and political… — Sam Donaldson
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we… — Duke Ellington
When I found out that I could carry a tune, well, I came to realize that I had a gift, that it was a kind… — Howard Keel
Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done. — William J. Clinton
We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the… — Nikita Khrushchev
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the… — David McCullough
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes… — Thelma Ritter
We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that. — George MacKay
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married. — Burt Lancaster
There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no… — Stephen Hawking
Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists. — Newt Gingrich
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for… — Alan Lomax
I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching, as we know… — Doug Pagitt
To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A… — Daphne Sheldrick
I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship, — Cruz Bustamante
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. — Nat Hentoff
In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely with themselves, their… — Unknown Author
The world would be better off if people tried to become better, And people would become better if they stopped trying to be better off.… — Peter Maurin
Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as… — Marva Dawn
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they… — Olivier Clement
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 until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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