Best You Ought Wisdom
263 You Ought quotes by 208 unique authors
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You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called…
— Lewis Carroll
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No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you…
— Randy Pausch
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Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...
— Martin Luther
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(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
— Joseph Heller
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Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the…
— Linda Lael Miller
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I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep…
— Cassandra Clare
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
— Ernest Hemingway
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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
— Ezra Pound
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The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know,…
— Daniel Handler
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Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
— Jeffery Deaver
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What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the…
— Moderata Fonte
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Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to…
— Charlotte Bronte
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You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I…
— Wallace Stegner
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How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what…
— Benjamin Hoff
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
— Margaret Atwood
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I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or…
— Rachel Caine
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Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these…
— Orson Scott Card
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The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of…
— Rachel Cohn
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