Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way… — Steven Moffat
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone. — Claudio Magris
I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things,… — Adam Savage
Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body… — Watchman Nee
How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life. We consider… — Watchman Nee
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. — Ogden Nash
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well… — Ogden Nash
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any. — Nikolai Gogol
When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one. — Dean Rusk
You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process. — Birch Bayh
Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here,… — Robert Forman Horton
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.… — John Milton
We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant… — Al-Kindi
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome… — Watchman Nee
...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial. — John Hunt Morgan
A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of… — Bent Larsen
Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of… — Tony Evans
As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God… — Tony Evans
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility,… — C.S. Lewis
We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join… — Spencer W. Kimball
Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing… — Margot Asquith
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the… — Ezra Pound

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