Famous We Ought Lines
549 We Ought quotes by 387 unique authors
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What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of…
— Carly Fiorina
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We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
— William James
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
— William James
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If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our…
— E. Stanley Jones
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources…
— Patrick J. Kennedy
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God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
— Walter Lang
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away…
— Wangari Maathai
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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
— Peter Marshall
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Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
— George McGovern
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over.…
— Jack Nicklaus
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
— Thomas Paine
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It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We…
— Leon Panetta
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
— Blaise Pascal
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things…
— Blaise Pascal
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
— Pope John Paul II
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Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly…
— Ron Paul
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We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to…
— Mike Pence
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
— Plutarch
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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even…
— Bertrand Russell
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
— Jack Welch
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
— E. O. Wilson
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My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us,…
— John Woolman
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If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to…
— Evgeny Morozov
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