Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents? Votes: 3
Madame de StaelFreedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. Votes: 1
Pope John Paul IIA wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. Votes: 1
Niccolo MachiavelliHe who would remain honest ought to keep away want. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThe formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAstronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators Votes: 0
Saul PerlmutterAstronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators. Votes: 0
Saul PerlmutterResolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinSome reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonYou ought to search the Scriptures yourself, to discover the glorious gospel. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaLet us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen. Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweThat which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof. Votes: 0
Richard DedekindThe Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaIn all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnEducation is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaFreedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. Votes: 0
Bjorn UlvaeusA religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it. Votes: 0
Ignatius of LoyolaThe beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. Votes: 0
Stephen MetcalfA power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonA Christian ought to speak kindly even when given the opportunity to retaliate. Votes: 0
Rick WarrenYou ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. Votes: 0
Stephanie PerkinsSisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink. Votes: 0
Kathleen Hall JamiesonIn natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. Votes: 0
Carl LinnaeusIf your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. Votes: 0
Ernest RutherfordOne person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself. Votes: 0
Diana Wynne JonesBut in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water. Votes: 0
Aloysius MartinichWar is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteAnd when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves. Votes: 0
George William NorrisWe ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroHuman laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuI don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building. Votes: 0
George W. BushAfter all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. Votes: 0
Mary Ann ShafferArt ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. Votes: 0
Alfred de VignyImportant insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise. Votes: 0
Richard J. FosterImagination is divine. Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaAmerican writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. Votes: 0
Don DeLilloA man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition. Votes: 0
Eleanor CattonGeneral benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. Votes: 0
Jane AustenA street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener. Votes: 0
Mark TwainWe live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that. Votes: 0
Edwin NewmanYou ought to pray for a strong heart and then you can endure all things. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaIt ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books. Votes: 0
Josephine Dodge Daskam BaconYou ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillNo nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty. Votes: 0
George William NorrisThe fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldNo nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty. Votes: 0
George W. NorrisWhen something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth. Votes: 0
Marilynne RobinsonSometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonYou spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love. Votes: 0
John H. JohnsonA man ought to pray daily for himself, his wife, his children and his family. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaAnyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerAn author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works. Votes: 0
Gaston LerouxFrom the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live. Votes: 0
Henri RousseauWhat I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do. Votes: 0
Jeff FoxworthyHe who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not. Votes: 0
Marie von Ebner-EschenbachNot one of you reflects, that you ought know your Gods before you worship them. Votes: 0
Charles SouthwellEvery action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present. Votes: 0
George WashingtonWe ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherWe need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be. Votes: 0
Jennifer GranholmIf there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work. Votes: 0
Marie DresslerRussia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in. Votes: 0
Michael T. FlynnThe man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. Votes: 0
Paul the ApostleEven in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while. Votes: 0
George CarlinI ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. Votes: 0
Jonathan DimblebyIf it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else. Votes: 0
S. Truett CathyI've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. Votes: 0
Jimmy Connors... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. Votes: 0
Thomas PaineCommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweIf you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition. Votes: 0
Bob RichardsEvery week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheTrue liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought. Votes: 0
Arthur W. PinkWe ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man. Votes: 0
Dwight L. MoodyWhen the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it? Votes: 0
Edwin LefevreThe past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. Votes: 0
Jose Ortega y GassetEthics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be. Votes: 0
Michael JosephsonWe think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch Votes: 0
Scott McNealyEvery philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelMen ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
Robert Baden-PowellI have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Alexander HamiltonThose who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.
Stanisław I LeszczyńskiIf honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeauA man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.
Friedrich NietzscheI think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship,
Cruz BustamanteWe ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
Jean de La FontaineFishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed
John D. VoelkerFolks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done ...
Josephine LawrenceNo longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
Marcus AureliusIt is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Miguel de CervantesOur job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
Richard S. SalantArt is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
Anthony BurgessOne's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
D. H. LawrenceNot only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.
George HerbertYou ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.
John Paul DeJoriaThe lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan SwiftWhat one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus Tullius CiceroObedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
Napoleon BonaparteIt may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Sherwood AndersonI wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott CardWe must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham LincolnThat which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Algernon SidneyThe artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
David Steindl-Rastdown with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel.
e. e. cummingsThere are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
Hillary ClintonIf Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
Jerry ColemanTo amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonOne ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
Virginia WoolfThe nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
William E. SimonBefore you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.
Gerard SwopeI can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
Jean-Paul SartreYou ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
Jeph JacquesWell, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.
John EhrlichmanIf you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
Noam ChomskySome preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
Vance HavnerAny artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
Witold GombrowiczI feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
Bertrand RussellThey never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
Edmund BurkeTo discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
Friedrich NietzscheI think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.
Jim ButcherA man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
Napoleon BonaparteThe girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
Raymond ChandlerDoing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
Samuel GompersAttachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.
Simone WeilRings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.
Terry PratchettThat one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Thomas JeffersonWe ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.
Alan WolfeScience is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing.
Dennis FlanaganThe richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
Dietrich BonhoefferBefore we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.
Dwight L. MoodyA man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard ShawI think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.
James A. Michenerchildren had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
Mary BordenI think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.
Matt LucasWe ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
Miguel de CervantesYou ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
Mother JonesWe ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
Thomas JeffersonGod is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.
Aiden Wilson TozerI am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
Anthony TrollopeLife is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
David BrinSo let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund SpenserThere are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
H. L. MenckenRummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
Leo TolstoyThe mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
Napoleon BonaparteIf God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
Robert Green IngersollHard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Thomas MalthusEvery perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
Andre GideIt takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
Benjamin Minge DuggarWhy do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?
Clay WalkerHistory is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
Earnest HootonYou ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
EpictetusDreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
Francis BaconInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
Frederick Douglass[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
James MadisonOn every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
Jane AustenThe searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDo what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
William PennWe ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
Charles SpurgeonGeorge theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
E. C. BentleyWhen marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
Fanny KembleAll the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored
John AndersonOur continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.
Josh BillingsIt is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
Judah SmithThere were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.
Julia QuinnSo young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
Lewis CarrollYou ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.
Lord HailshamA photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
Nobuyoshi ArakiI am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
Virginia WoolfEvery abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
VoltaireAn enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
William Henry MaulePerhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
William Makepeace ThackerayTrue statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
William Rounseville AlgerPrayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.
Benedict of NursiaThe words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
Calvin CoolidgeThe man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
Denis DiderotThe Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
Elizabeth BibescoWisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix FrankfurterI just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.
Jeb BushYou ought to marry someone who's willing to go anywhere for God. If they're not, they're out.
John PiperThe same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.
Kanye WestNow flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Maria EdgeworthIn order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
Napoleon BonaparteHollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.
Paul NewmanWe can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.
Richard A. ClarkeSuffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.
Brad WarnerWe love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
Cyrus the GreatGreat men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMan's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
Frederic FarrarI shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
Friedrich NietzscheWomen ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
John SeldenAll we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
Michel de MontaigneWhen someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.
Mike HuckabeeThe worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
Napoleon BonaparteIt is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
PlatoLife is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
StendhalI think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
Alice MattisonThe seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Arthur RubinsteinIf a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.
Charles SpurgeonWhat we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.
George W. BushEvery single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.
Howard DeanYou ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.
Joe DiMaggioWhoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
John CalvinThe paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that
Patricia SchroederThe 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.
Richard P. Feynman[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.
Tim Berners-LeeWhere grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Alexander PopeWe need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
DemosthenesIf Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
Dwight L. MoodySometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
G. H. HardyLiberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
Lord ActonMost of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Peter MarshallA loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
Sydney J. HarrisA really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
Eugene IonescoEvery author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
Friedrich August von HayekStyle ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
Friedrich NietzscheAnybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.
George W. BushThere ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.
George W. BushIn pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more,
Ilchi LeeTrue charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.
James E. FaustThere ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.
Jeff CooperI ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.
John SteinbeckEvery time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.
Katherine MansfieldAt communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
Philip NeriWe whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.
Philip YanceySo people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
Bill JanklowMy rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
Erich Maria RemarqueIf there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
George SteinerGod's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
Henry Ward BeecherA man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
Jane AustenPainting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.
Philip KitcherWe ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
PythagorasPeople's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be...
Robert Anton WilsonI am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
Stephen LeacockWhen a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
Owen WisterThe fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.
Ashleigh BrilliantIf they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
Bill ParcellsGod knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do.
Billy GrahamYou shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch BayhThe woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. ForsterThere ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
Frank Moore ColbyWe ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.
Joseph Smith, Jr.Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.
Lenny BruceReligion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.
Philip SchaffA nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWe ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
Seneca the YoungerIn my view, republican primary debates ought to be moderated by people who would vote in a primary.
Ted CruzEach of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
Etty Hillesum... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.
Florynce Kennedya person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
Frances Hodgson BurnettIf there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
Isaac AsimovI can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.
Jimmy PageEveryone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
JosephusAn architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
Marcus Vitruvius PollioI've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
Margaret DelandIt is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.
Niccolo MachiavelliI think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.
Russell D. Moore