W Quotes
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“We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.”
“We ought not to desire the impossible.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present”
“We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.”
“We ought not to focus on the price of achieving freedom, but on its value and the brightest future that’s awaiting us.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.”
“We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.”
“We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.”
Source: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
“We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.”
“We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.”
“We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.”
“We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).”
Source: Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
“We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816
“We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78
“We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.”
“We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.”
“We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”
“We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
“We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.”
“We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.”
“We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.”
Source: The Things We Don't Know
“We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.”
“We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.”
“We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.”
“We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.”
“We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.”
Source: Trusting God
“We ought to be bragging about Florida!”
“We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.”
“We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest national security threats facing the United States right now are not in the Middle East. They are domestic.”
“We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.”
Source: CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana
“We ought to be grateful to God for the blessedness of living.”
“We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.”
“We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.”
“We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the technology and writing of the technology and the social justice of the technology in what social justice does is reduce impacts on the Earth because the most impact is from the poorest and richest people.”
“We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.”
Source: Unveiling the End Times in Our Time: The Triumph of the Lamb in Revelation
“We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.”
“We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.”
“We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!”
Source: The Custom of the Country (鄉土風俗)
“We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ] if we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.”
“We ought to be patient at all times.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.”
“We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.”
“We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.”
“We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.”
“We ought to be thankful not for our eyes but for our ability to see.”
“We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.”
“We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.”