Ought Quotes
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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
Anita Loos -
We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.
George Washington
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We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.
Lou Holtz -
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
Paul Auster -
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
Nobuyoshi Araki -
Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
Merle Haggard -
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
C. S. Lewis -
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
Witold Gombrowicz
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I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how they're going to invest their money.
Saxby Chambliss -
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
Arthur W. Pink -
The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
Rory Stewart -
Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."
Ernest Renan -
My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.
Michael Madigan
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
Seneca the Younger -
I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
Owen Wister -
If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
Joshua Lederberg -
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.
William Stanley Jevons -
As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.
Tony Evans
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Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield -
Usage ain't always a matter of ought.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
George Fordyce -
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
Seneca the Younger