Top 1200 Ought Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

A decision as a backbencher to vote against one's party ought not to be taken lightly.

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

I think it's a sign of a gotcha political system that's looking to take down public interest candidates that they make a big deal out of a comment to a parent concerned about the exposure of young children to Wi-Fi. Now it turns out that Wi-Fi is actually untested. A large study by the NIH [National Institutes of Health] released a month ago raised serious questions about whether kids ought to be exposed, whether young children ought to be exposed to Wi-Fi. And you know, I'm not saying they should or they shouldn't but that this should be studied. Absolutely it should be studied.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

A Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate.

Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.

Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

When I'm not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

As a fan, there are times you get frustrated as to what you think a team ought to be doing.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.