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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.
Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.
Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.
CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.
We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.
To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.
I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.
It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.
You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it.
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.
If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.
I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.
I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
