Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a… — Jon Postel
I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever… — Gustav Klimt
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above… — Gustav Klimt
You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen. — Philipp Meyer
I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude… — Auberon Waugh
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking… — PZ Myers
Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God,… — Increase Mather
The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. — Calvin Coolidge
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock
It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. — John Masefield
A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. — Beryl Markham
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision of that 'rarely… — Patricia K Page
I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book.… — George Lincoln Rockwell
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget. — Sarah Bernhardt
The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best.… — Carl Safina
The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind… — James Jeans
You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned… — Cornel West
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and… — Christopher Hitchens
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. — Plato
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless,… — Bertrand Russell
Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you… — Peter Lynch
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. — Homer
You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film. — Vera Farmiga

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