W Quotes
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“We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.”
“We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.”
“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”
“We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.”
Source: The Long War: (Long Earth 2)
“We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."”
“We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.”
“We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.”
“We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to consider the end in everything.”
“We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern; to make this consideration depend on beneficial consequences for human beings is to accept the implication that the interests of animals do not warrant consideration for their own sakes.”
“We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.”
“We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of Christian charity; such as affability, love and humility. These virtues serve wonderfully to gain the hearts of men, and to encourage them to embrace things that are more repugnant to nature.”
“We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.”
“We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.”
“We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“We ought to discover the beauty of creation through a walk in nature.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”
Source: The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius
“We ought to encourage, build and strengthen one another.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.”
“We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.”
Source: The Republic
“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”
“We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.”
“We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.”
“We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“We ought to give each other, a chance to change.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.”
Source: Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto
“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.”
“We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.”
Source: Memories of my life, being my personal, professional, and social recollections as woman and artist
“We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.”
Source: JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel
“We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.”
“We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.”
“We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks, but we're short...of workers. It is to our nation's advantage to encourage high-powered, smart people to come into our country.”
“We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.”
“We ought to know the Lord and fullness of His great grace.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.”
“We ought to limit what we confidently say we will never do to what we cannot and will never be able to do.”
“We ought to live heaven on earth, clean environment, the beauty of blissful realms.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We ought to live in the marvellous light.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We ought to live life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.”
Source: Laws
“We ought to live the fullness of life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to look the world frankly in the face.”
Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“We ought to love one another”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to love one another at Christmas and every day of the year.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.”
Source: Don Quixote
“We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.”
Source: Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters
“We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.”
“We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America.”