Best ought & made Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.”

Made Two Play Sleep Break Morning Ought Eight Clock March Midnight

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“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.”

Made Easy Difficult Known Ought Being Thankful

Author:Epicurus

“...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.”

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.”

Made Shows Order Turns Lord Ignorance Ought Bird Gold Miracle Wings Bones Flesh Refuge Veins Shields

Author:Galileo Galilei

“There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.”

People Want Made Matter Seems Left Trouble Groups Ought Politician Safe Negative Sticks Lists Instance Target Unfair Say Anything

Author:Andy Rooney

“May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it?”

Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution

“Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life: the voice of God that whispers to it: "You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You are still God's child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet. and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you!”

Source: The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.”

Doe Made Sound Views Ought Performances Died Structure Characteristics Etc Consideration Length Precise Frequency Morphology

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.”

May Made Used Values Social Emotion Struggle Economic Theory Ought Objectives Useless Judged Effectiveness Refutation Social Theory

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.”

Humans Made Life Is Social Effort Theory Ought Judgment Intellectual Human Life Rejection Rejects Logical Worth Living Life Is Worth Living Social Theory

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away. And, as a result, America is now bearing this extraordinary burden where we are not as safe as we ought to be.”

Believe Made War America I Believe President Decision Results Policy Ought Safe Extraordinary Burden Foreign Policy Alliances President George W Bush

Author:John F. Kerry

“The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason itself is an illusion. As Ethan Allen said Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are labouring to dethrone. If they argue without reason, which they must do, in order to be consistent with themselves, they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.”

Ifs Made Said Sometimes Reason Science Order Principles Ought Illusion Deserve Argument Claims Conviction Arguing Rational Consistent Irrational Arbitrary

Author:Carl Sagan

“Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.”

Ifs Want Firsts Children Made School Can Do Trouble Atheism Inspire Ought Prove Foundation Positive Atheism Mess Better Life Public Education

Author:Bill Cosby

“If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?”

Ifs Way Firsts Made Done Virtue Duty Ought Consideration Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.”

Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington

“I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.”

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition

“Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.”

Ifs Made Reason Change Lord Progress Ought Resistance Chickens Hens

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of

“Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.”

Source: The Way to Rainy Mountain

“The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”

Persons Made Enemy Trouble Ought Criticism Tragedy Theater Notion Innocent Triumph Possessed Virtuous Distress Innocent Person

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.”

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank

“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

Thinking Men Made Ends Whole Order Human Nature Duty Ought Dignity Merit Thoughtful

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.”

Ifs Men Made Interest Numbers Class Issues Taken Ought Labor Instruments Court Available Protection Tyranny Remedy Privileged Disputes Invasion Laborers Boycott Unlawful

Author:William Howard Taft

“... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.”

Ifs Life Made Action Life Is Religion Growth Deals Teaching Development Ought Worship Mere Instinct Linked Gratification Credo

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.”

People Thinking Men World Way Humans Littles Has Beens Made Self Care Human Beings Sin Simple Moral Nice Crime Ought Morality Mass Conscience Saved Code Dislike Moral Code Thermometers

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.”

Men Way Humans Made Stills Helping Christian Form Found Christ Deals Liberty Ought Empty Neighbor Servant Human Form

Book:Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

“Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.”

Should Made Christian Attitude Saws Ought Integrity Commitment Excellence Workers Very Good Being The Best Good Work Genesis Best Attitude Dependability Commitment To Excellence

Author:R. Kent Hughes

“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.”

People Years Made Jobs President Ought Easier Taxes Income Made It President Bush Income Tax

Author:Jay Leno

“Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.”

Giving May Mean Made Able Left Theory Keys Ought Ears Notes Bars Holes Mathematical Tunes Strings Architect Twisted Beam Workmen

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.”

Giving Humans Made Law Ought Direct

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.”

Mind Heart Made Grace Changed Ought Benefits Flesh Length Heart And Mind

Book:The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius

Source: The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius

“Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.”

Men Mean Made Use Ought Honor Method Great Men

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Made Can Do Realizing Community Situation Roles Taken Rights Seeing Movement Ought Equal Men And Women Hey Equal Rights

Author:Julian Bond

“The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.”

Believe Made Book Easy Deals Pay Revolution Ought Made It Royalty

Author:Philip Pullman

“Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.”

Should Years Wells Made Said House Lord Ought Stones Should Have Rounds Legs Noble Noses Nonsense Pigs Castles Provinces Pork Spectacles Best House

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

People Thinking May Made Pain Young Evil Virtue Example Ought Reconcile Sparta Bodily Pain

Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...

“There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.”

Made Able Interesting Materials Products Ought Complexes Cups Bags Bottles Plastic Potatoes Simplify Biodegradable

Author:Edward Norton

“We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.”

Knows May Made Know How Ought Originals Obedience Falsehood Commanders Magistrates

Author:Algernon Sidney

“[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.”

Knows May Made Important Reason Ought Eating Picks Appreciate Noses Knives Incapable Persuasion Admirable Peas

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.”

Ifs Men Made He Man Ought Soldier

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Look, history is interesting. I read three books on George Washington last year. And my opinion is that if they're still analyzing the first president, the 43rd president ought to be doing what he thinks is right. And eventually, historians will come and realize whether... the decisions I made made sense.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Looks Made Stills Book Lasts Three President Realizing Decision Interesting Opinion Ought Historian Last Year Analyzing

Author:George W. Bush

“God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.”

Made Prayer Answers Ought

Author:J. I. Packer

“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.”

Source: Agrarian Justice

“The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.”

People Looks Made Ideas States Order Nations Interest Ought Congress Instance Look Up Joints

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!”