Ought Quotes

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

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.