Ought Quotes

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.