Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.
A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.
We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.
Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.
We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what I am going to do.
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.
If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.
God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
I don't believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home.
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.