Best You Ought Thoughts
263 You Ought quotes by 208 unique authors
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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
— Bill Watterson
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To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just…
— Julian Baggini
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and…
— Joseph Campbell
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Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee…
— Bill Watterson
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping…
— Doris Lessing
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I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
— Douglas Adams
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Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating…
— Dr. Seuss
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I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you…
— Charles Dickens
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For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat.…
— Bruce Lee
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
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But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you…
— Daniel Quinn
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People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges,…
— E. Nesbit
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What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that…
— Scott Adams
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and…
— J D Salinger
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Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're…
— J D Salinger
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You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
— Alfred Hitchcock
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In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how…
— Daniel Quinn
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of…
— Chinua Achebe
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Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end…
— Raymond Chandler
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I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.
— Neil Gaiman
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Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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