Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have… — Johnnetta B. Cole
The fans are bad everywhere you go, with language, and with behavior. You can't put enough cops in the stands, but you ought to give… — John Chaney
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as… — A. A. Gill
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They… — Daniel Pauly
The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young sons she ought… — Lynda Lee-Potter
Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less… — Charlton Ogburn
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a… — Joseph Hume
The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do. — Rory Stewart
We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy. — J.R. Miller
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. — Samuel Richardson
I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we… — Victoria Moran
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who… — Oswald Spengler
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its… — Charles Sanders Peirce
If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the… — Hudson Maxim
In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward… — Paul Begala
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. — William Safire
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. — Nicholas Culpeper
Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires… — Isaac Newton
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. — Jane Austen
A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need,… — Laozi
In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain… — John Updike
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and… — Merle Haggard
The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it… — Herbert Bayard Swope
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but… — David M. Raup

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