Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll… — Curtis LeMay
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since,… — Amy Waldman
A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it — George Clymer
We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people… — Hideo Kojima
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist… — Walter E. Williams
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for… — William Wilberforce
I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough. — Alasdair Gray
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe… — Walter Scott
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the… — Orison Swett Marden
If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop… — Marian Wright Edelman
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls. — Heraclitus
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every… — Noah Webster
God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of… — Isaac Backus
Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is… — Peter Robinson
Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are. — Unknown Author
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this was… — Christopher Columbus
I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that,… — Arthur Rimbaud
When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people… — Eric Hoffer
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. — Edmund Burke
I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it… — John Edensor Littlewood
Families ought to be noisy. — Benjamin Franklin
The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. — Stephen Metcalf
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey. — Karl Philipp Moritz

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