W Quotes
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“We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“We ought to make the pie higher.”
“We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.”
Source: Morning & Evening
“We ought to obey God's law, so that our believe in the Divine Being, shall never be in vain.”
“We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.”
“We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.”
“We ought to practice democracy in the correct manner, but not to impose it to those who are still adapting to the correct leadership within their states.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“We ought to pray persistently.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to readily share our successes with those with whom we readily share our problems.”
“we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.”
Source: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
“We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.”
“We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.”
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright
“We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.”
“We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.”
“We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.”
“We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.”
“We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.”
Source: The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics
“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.”
“We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew
“We ought to relentlessly ignore excuses, especially those we are told by ourselves.”
“We ought to remember during this entire contemplation of God that we must apply all that is said of God to Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is God. We cannot separate Jesus Christ from God. We cannot separate the Christian religion from Jesus Christ, who is God, and we must affirm and believe that only the Catholic religion is the Christian religion. These affirmations have, as a result, inescapable conclusions that no ecclesiastical authority can contest: outside of Jesus Christ and the Catholic religion, that is, outside the Church, there is no salvation, no eternal life. Whoever is saved attains to everlasting life by his adhesion to the Mystical Body of Christ.
Another consequence: all of the societies Our Lord created must necessarily work together, in accordance with their entire purpose, to make souls Catholic and to keep them Catholic, in order to procure their eternal salvation, which is the end of all Creation, of the Incarnation, and of the Redemption.”
Source: Spiritual Journey
“We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.”
“We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.”
“We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!”
“We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.”
“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”
“We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.”
“We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.”
“We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.”
“We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.”
“We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last."”
“We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?”
“We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.”
“We ought to test for the living water.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.”
“We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.”
“We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.”
“We ought to understand the personalities and motives of an individual before we come to judge him.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
“We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.”
“We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
“We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.”
“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 3: The Eternal Quest
“We ourselves
are as much a result of the work we do
as the product of that work will ever be.”
“We ourselves are co-called non-linear dynamical systems... I don't feel quite so pathetic when I interrupt a project to check on some obscure web site or newsgroup or derive an iota of cheer by getting rid of pocketful of change.”
“We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.”
“We ourselves are made of Stardust.”
“We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.”
“we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.”
“We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently.”