Ought Quotes

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.
James Levine

Work, Done, Before

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.
Lafcadio Hearn

Time, Best, Beautiful

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol

God, Respect, Land

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
Warwick Davis

Gone, Careful, Filmmakers

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

Best, Nation, Public

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
Wilfred Owen

War, Service, Making

People ought to quit talking to the press.
Terry McAuliffe

Talking, Quit, Press

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.
Chuck Grassley

Run, Serve, Platform

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.
Jay Inslee

Focus, Reason, President

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
William Falconer

Great, Important, May

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.
David Axelrod

Work, Future, Forward

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.
John Goodman

Same, Poor, Plan

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Beckham

Love, Compulsory, Brazilians

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
George C. Williams

Last, Century, Religions

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West

Women, Men, Freedom

Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.
David Plouffe

Home, Said, Dream

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Joseph de Maistre

Power, Complain, Loves

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.
John Cornyn

Talk, American, Economy

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Josephus Daniels

Crime, Editor, Dullness

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Nicholas Culpeper

Greatest, Flowers, Herbs

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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.
William Vickrey

Job, Person, Find

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
Avicenna

Health, Sickness, Medicine

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
Leland Stanford

Life, Good, Great

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan

Respect, Someone, Country

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
Germaine Greer

Love, Same, Whole

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad

Women, Home, Almost

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom, Often, Late

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
Mary Harris Jones

Good, Enough, Working

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain

Marriage, Husband, Wife

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