Best Ought Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.”

Hard Willing Ought Accounts Dollars Conviction Access Our Family Burned Bank Accounts Willing To Learn Access To Education

Author:Dave Obey

“You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.”

Knows Should Mind Crazy Ought Arguing Insanity

Author:Billy Joel

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

Mankind Events Ought Ordinary Madness Philosopher Stupidity Historian Wickedness Imbeciles

Author:David Hume

“Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.”

May Religion Path Mankind Taught Expression Ought Suits Oneness

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

Mind Heart Art Bears Ought Adversity Cowardice Calamity Grandeur Fleeing

Book:The works

Source: The works

“Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.”

School Challenges Teach Students Ought Ideology Classroom Secular

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“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.”

People Ifs Said Self Home Dream President Millions Ought Immigration Romney Veto Dream Act

Author:David Plouffe

“This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.”

Has Beens Play Government Running Ought Function Congress Disaster Affected

Author:David Plouffe

“When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.”

Home Government Lord Ought

Author:Rick Perry

“What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.”

Ought Hated

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”

Men Has Beens Country Seems Differences Church Taken Ought Models Towns Faults Ancient

Author:George Edmund Street

“If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Turns Fiction Ought Models Scales Better Than You

Author:George Saunders

“If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.”

Ifs Sides Support Ought Republican Conservative Excited Not Sure Desperate One Time Misunderstood Romney Your Side

Author:Louie Gohmert

“Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus Christ? Would you say that the highest, best law for a man to live by was contained in asking the question 'What would Jesus do?' And then doing it regardless of results? In other words, do you think men everywhere ought to follow Jesus' example as closely as they can in their daily lives?”

Thinking Men Action Law Jesus Christ Results Christianity Opinion Honest Example Ought Highest Standards Jesus Christ Asking Christian Life Daily Life Live By

Author:Charles Sheldon

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”

Want God Government Chance Ought Presses Censorship Chances Are Censoring Pseudonyms

Author:Anatole France

“If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.”

Ifs Years Fields Ought Careful Be Careful

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.”

People Thinking Way Christian Views Issues Ought Shapes Apologizing Arena Shrinks Worldview World View Christian Worldview

Author:John Thune

“What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.”

Ifs Soul Universe Ought Immortal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.”

People Thinking Should Able Ought Agree Treated Pursue Fulfilling Fulfilling Life

Author:Mark Udall

“I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.”

Years Wells Military Style Ought Weapons Conclusion Our Society Assault Bans Assault Weapons Assault Weapons Ban

Author:Mark Udall

“Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.”

Believe Wells Courses Party Subjects Media Ought Majority Intention Concentration

Author:Barney Frank

“One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.”

Writing Sea Ought Bottom

Book:Mrs. Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.”

Thinking Writing Young Reading Enjoy Ought Aspiring Writers

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.”

People Ifs Eye Christian Used Sin Generations Ought Christian Inspirational Ashamed Modesty No Fear Brazen

Book:Day by Day

Source: Day by Day

“God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.”

Wells Christian Practice Judging Ought Christian Inspirational Tolerate

Author:Vance Havner

“Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.”

Ought Equal Institutions Sacred Unions Protection Equal Protection

Author:James McGreevey

“A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.”

Ifs Long Doe Whole Christian Spirit Realizing Deals Morning Ought Weight Defeat Encounters

Author:Watchman Nee

“If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite from life’s wretched absurdity. The magic of love is not that it contains all the answers, it’s that it eliminates the need for so many pressing questions. For love makes us feel like gods--and that’s what we’re really after, isn’t it?”

Ifs Needs Feels Answers Love Is Powerful Magic One Thing Ought Triumph Absurdity Wretched Respite

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.”

Men Government Simple Democracy Ought Violent Despotism

Book:The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

Source: The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

“For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.”

People Ifs Years Interest Democracy Conditions Media Ought Fit Models Ideals Tests Western Abstract Conform Adopted Korea Singapore Philippines Taiwan Western Media

Author:Goh Chok Tong

“Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge the way I live, the problem is not with Jesus. The problem is with me. Charles Spurgeon expressed this in broader, scriptural terms when he said, “If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.”31”

Ifs Way Believe Said Problem Jesus Left I Believe Term Challenges Simple Teaching Ought Sticks Verses Thumbs Left Out Blisters Spurgeon

Book:Hyper-Grace

Source: Hyper-Grace

“Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.”

People Ifs Men Should Kind Two Young Political Three Rich Military Example Son Ready Ought Offers Members All Kinds Council Influential Military Service Rich Family Three Sons

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Philosophy Ought Art Is Paint Photographer Details Painter Ruins Forsake

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.”

Want Sometimes Ought What You Want Sometimes In Life

Author:Chetan Bhagat

“If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Should Firsts Looks Mean One Thing Color Ought Importance Passionate Allowing Rejoice Dwelling Anything In Life

Author:C. J. Mahaney

“For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.”

Seems Culture Fiction Worst Dangerous Tvs Ought Dating Pops Compromise Annoying Seriousness Pop Culture Icons Deployment Platonic Tics

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.”

Hard Difficult Grief Lord Ought Saint Chosen

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.”

Turns Ought Debate Reform Welfare Thoughtful Welfare Reform

Author:Jack Kemp

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells May Hands Values Ought Amount Library Possession Compare Disorder

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.”

Believe Littles Changed Ought Lament

Book:The Bible Jesus Read

Source: The Bible Jesus Read

“Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!”

People Earth Faces Ought Grey Exalted Cupcakes Muffins

Author:Frank Zappa

“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”

Ifs Want Stills Running Three Hours Four Minutes Ought Nine Want Something Visitors

Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.”

Two Ought Legacy Chapters Autobiography

Author:Ellery Sedgwick

“From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.”

Should Whole Study Progress Effects Students Ought Periods Disease Observation Witness Sickness Persevere Commencement

Author:Robert James Graves

“I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.”

Believe School Choices I Believe Parent Ought Public School School System School Choice

Author:William H. Gray III

“I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.”

Believe I Believe Support Ought Presses Educational Fallen Free Press Informative

Author:Samuel Dash

“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.”

People Humans Sleep Human Nature Ought Bed Arise Sheep Legislature

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

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