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“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

“Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Force Ought Ego Brushes

Author:Robert Genn

“It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.”

Needs Shows Ought Saint Our Love Serving Others

Book:The Spiritual Conferences

Source: The Spiritual Conferences

“The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.”

People Knows Want Needs Ought Profession Journalism Citizenship

Author:Walter Cronkite

“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”

Men Needs Given Ought Command Consideration

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.”

Men Needs Has Beens Joy Heaven Poor Lord He Man Ought One Day This Life Generous Our Lord Orphan Those In Need Stingy Widows And Orphans

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.”

Needs Ought Expectations Restitution

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this”

Thinking Needs Important America Community Security Ought Discipline Resources National Security Pentagon

Author:John Kasich

“In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.”

Way Needs Mean States Natural Wonder Rich Doors Inspire Ought Creatures Universal Affair Delight Creator Satisfied Savior Joyful Wholeness Employed Flourishing Natural Gifts Shalom

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.”

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.”

“You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.”

Ifs Needs Values Wish Atheism Ought Positive Atheism

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Humans Kind Hands Animal Moral Design Ought Species Philosopher Stable Human Society Human Species

Author:Frans de Waal

“Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.”

Needs Two Stories Values Memories Company Subjects Ought Exhausted Repetition Defects Good Memories

Author:Jonathan Swift

“We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.”

Needs Cases Ought Michigan

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.”

People Want Needs Law Ought

Author:Chris Matthews

“I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humor Political President Issues Policy Ought Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources.”

Thinking Men Needs Hate Ought Resources Resilience Originality Honorable Respectable Ingenuity Man Hating

Author:Joanna Russ

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.”

People Ifs Needs Taken Ought Findings Congress

Author:William J. Clinton

“The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.”

Needs Numbers Secret Mystery Ought Property Acquisition

Author:Boethius

“even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.”

Needs Humans Sometimes Ought Constitution Sacred Womens Rights Infallible

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.”

Ifs World Way Needs Reason Would Be Interest This World Ought Amount Smart Investing Significant Good Times Lots Of Money Having A Good Time Borrowed Borrowing

Author:Warren Buffett

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Firsts May Real Death Evil Natural Loss Acting Ought Sorrow Illusion Gains Overcoming Errors Separation Evident Weeping Happier Life

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.”

Men Needs Giving Soul Play Pay Education Responsibility Willing Fine Ought Gold Intelligent Punishment Handle Ignorant Tunes Silver Gold And Silver

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just as we need to encourage women to test life's many options, we need to acknowledge real limits of energy and resources. It would be pointless and cruel to prescribe role combination for every woman at each moment of her life. Life has its seasons. There are moments when a woman ought to invest emotionally in many different roles, and other moments when she may need to conserve her psychological energies.”

Needs May Different Real Moments Would Be Energy Women Roles Ought Limits Resources Tests Seasons Psychological Combination Acknowledge Pointless

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs War Study Duty Ought Discipline Gratitude All Things Profound Hardship Detachment Evoke Commonwealth Subsistence

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.”

Needs Said America Faces Ought Gun Israel Maps Load Wipe

Author:Mike Huckabee

“I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Use Given Heard Security Ought Band Eighty Springsteen Good Bands False Sense Of Security

Author:Bob Dylan

“I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.”

Thinking Men World Needs Writing Believe Character Able Lost I Believe Walks Ought Men And Women Skins Gender Slips Credibility Categorization

Author:Anita Nair

“If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.”

Ifs Needs Giving Littles Earth Asks Energy Source Ought Clean Environmental Ask Me Excess Adequate Mischief Extremist Environmentalist Energy Sources

Author:Amory Lovins

“Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.”

Men Needs Humor Differences Memories Ought Wit Bitterness Veins Satirical

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Heart Stories Energy Interest Loses Opinion Cutting Dangerous Ought Add Finished Needs And Wants Telling Your Story

Author:Donna Tartt

“If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated...they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.”

Ifs Needs Hands Government Ought Checks Mutual Monarchs

Book:The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress

Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress

“However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It’s like being in a family.”

Thinking Needs Facts Shows Can Do Prayer Ought Do The Best

Author:Roberta Bondi

“Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.”

Needs Writing Has Beens Stories Given Views Ought Who You Are Point Of View

Author:Bret Lott

“One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.”

World Needs Hands Able Ought Involved Detached

Author:Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

“Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going to be a great candidate [for presidency], for sure. But I think - he's a United States senator. He ought to show up.”

Thinking Needs States Shows Able Jobs United United States Ought Politician Candidates Gifted Senators Presidency Marcos

Author:Jeb Bush

“If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.”

Ifs Needs Spirit Natural Walks Ought Holy Normal Believer Lifestyle Holy Spirit

Book:How to Listen to God

Source: How to Listen to God

“Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.”

Needs Two Goal Ought Golf Germany Opposition Handicaps

Author:Franz Beckenbauer

“Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.”

Men Needs Littles Christianity Teach Honest Taught Ought Morality Pagan Chaste Contraceptives Honest Woman

Author:G. E. M. Anscombe

“The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and we need to be united to defeat that because we're going to be in a place that is far less secure than it is today.”

Want Needs Facts Today United Focus Policy Ought Clinton Defeat Secure Foreign Policy

Author:Jeb Bush

“It is a serious undertaking and yes, we do need more fencing and we do need to use technology, and we do need more border control. And we need to have better cooperation by the way with local law enforcement. There are 800,000 cops on the beat, they ought to be trained to be the eyes and ears for law enforcement for the threat against terror as well as for immigration.”

Way Needs Wells Use Eye Law Technology Serious Ought Beats Ears Threat Terror Immigration Locals Borders Cooperation Cop Law Enforcement Enforcement Undertakings Fencing Border Control

Author:Jeb Bush

“He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.”

Knows Men Needs May Known Ought Beast Brutes

Author:Pythagoras

“I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.”

Way Needs Firsts Feelings Film Bits My Own Novel Ought My Way Workspace

Author:William Monahan

“The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign persons against foreign government officials. And the State Department on the one side has got a very consistent and powerful view that U.S. courts should be open to those claims because there needs to be a place in the world where they can be brought. And those human rights norms ought to be real and enforceable, and we ought to be a beacon to the world.”

“I think we ought to use the same formula that we used when we took out Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. We have unique resources that no other country has, especially in the air. Intelligence and the ability to find where things are. I think the governments need to get together, because this is getting very serious.”

Thinking Needs Country Use Government Together Used Ability Air Military Serious Ought Unique Resources Iraq Formulas Other Countries Get Together Libya

Author:Dutch Ruppersberger

“Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might be more directly related than that to truths about what is right or good, or about what we ought to do, or to principles that tell us what is true about these matters. And I have no metaphysical theory about the truth-conditions of such truths, except to say that as objective truths, they must be independent of the attitudes, decisions or actions that they are supposed to justify or for which they are to offer reasons.”

“There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.”

Thinking Needs Believe Government Able Differences Ought Senators Mccain

Author:Karl Rove

“Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?”

People Thinking Needs Should Seems School Courses Given Accepting Serious Ought Conversation Asking Neighborhood Trapped Norm Resigned

Author:Michelle Alexander