Ought Quotes

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.