Best ought & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.”

Feels Trying May Stills Done Dream Ought Bed Perfection Smoking Pipe Radiant Incompetent Unspeakable Splendour Smoking A Pipe Best Picture

Book:Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

“Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.”

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Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.”

“In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.”

Ifs Trying Force Imagination Ought Noble Prophet Irresistible

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.”

“Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.”

Knows Men Trying Humans Long Ideas Use Order Leader Ought Normal Accounts Faults Endure Affair Stupidity Factors Inevitable Encounters Attempting Find Me Assistants True Leader

Author:Andre Maurois

“We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.”

Trying Country Three Clear Ought Relation Jew Treatment Allies Excess Nationality Respectful Disagreement Federation

Author:Ugo Cavallero

“Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.”

Trying Looks Long Spirit Grows Prayer Too Much Ought Draws Weary Fervent Good Prayer

Author:Martin Luther

“Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.”

Ifs Trying Doe Force Practice Ought Abuse Mere Equality Inevitable Legislature Chimera

Book:An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French

Source: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French

“People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

People Ifs Trying May Long Next Seeing Ought Treats England Climate Impression Weather Painter Tuesday Clerks Bad Impression

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.”

People World Should Trying Stories Shows Courses Fun Justice Views Novel Alive Mystery Ought Offers Hunger Being True Detectives Orderly Mystery Novels Stealth Detective Stories

Book:Thrones, Dominations

Source: Thrones, Dominations

“You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.”

Trying Brain Family Ought My Family Surviving Alleys Reunion Bowling Family Reunion Bowling Alleys

Book:Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four

Source: Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four

“You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.”

Ifs Feels Trying Eye Ought Creatures Eating Mouths Focused Restaurants Caves Whales Forks Oysters Eating Raw

Author:Lillian Russell

“I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Writing Trying Happens Challenges Ought Novelists

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.”

Thinking Trying Ideas States Democracy Ought Contracts New Ideas Federalist

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.”

Trying I Can Walks Ought Driving

Author:Robert Webb

“I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.”

“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.”

Thinking Knows Trying Children Has Beens Said Country Use Funny Mother Girl Found Ought Late Faults Excuse Servant Too Late Sunday Take Me Remedy

Author:William Howard Taft

“Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”

World Giving Trying Children Ability Views Influence Depends Ought Relate Future Happiness

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.”

People Men Trying Body Pain Science Religion Answers Animal Design Ought Sorrow Behavior Concern Cells Faster Behave Telling The Truth Contrast Airplane Quests Molecules Insulin

Author:Warren Weaver

“There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.”

Knows Trying Heart Existence Ought Heal Betray Physicians Discretion Console Sufferers Malady Chagrin

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.”

“If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Enough Form Turns Found Ought Smart Aspect Possession Boring Collections Museums Realising Mentality Memorial Collecting Neurotic Collectors Aristocratic

Author:Thomas Koerfer

“Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.”

Ifs Trying War Home Faces Names Doors Son Duty Ought Treats Regard Coming Home Unworthy Your Son Shirk Renegades

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."”

Ifs Trying Firsts Running Ought Succeed Quitting Nonsense Motto Try Again

Book:Frenzied Fiction

Source: Frenzied Fiction

“Woman should have the choice whether to have an abortion or not, but I like what Bill Clinton said: It ought to be safe and rare. You don't want to offend people with it. You try and do as much as you can to let people be different, but also to try and protect them from things that they think are bad. And it's worth all of us giving a little.”

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Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”

Trying Looks Lasts Goal Numbers Steps Ought Negative Philosophical Regard Climbs Metaphysics Backwards Ladders

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.”

Trying Done Christian Possibility Willing Ought Messages Concern Fundamentals Native Fellowship

Author:Hugh Martin

“Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.”

People Trying Hard Poet Ought Admire Possessed

Author:James Broughton

“I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.”

People Trying Eye Film Watches Ought Competition Bored Cinema Classic Classic Films

Author:Sam Riley

“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.”

Men Trying Self Hate Risk Ought Self Love Becoming Victim Revenge Lure

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Ought Chavez

Author:Pat Robertson

“My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.”

Trying Film Political Views Ought Responsible Agendas Judged Entertaining Political View

Author:Sydney Pollack

“Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.”

Trying Hard Problem Ought Solutions Propose Solution To A Problem

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.”

“But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come.”

People Trying Long Able America Term Religious Ought Standards Pot Melting Melting Pot

Author:John Kasich

“So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.”

“If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Whole Facts Process Results Situation Achieve Ought Connections Innocent Make Sense Damage Tactics

Author:Allard K. Lowenstein

“"First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I mean, women, yeah, I mean, make the case that they've been victimized. But they can't put themselves in the same shoes as slavery's legacy for example. Now, women might try to make the case. Hillary [Clinton] might try to make the case about not being ought to be able to vote, but it ain't gonna fly.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We have a whole mass of complex ways of understanding what is the nature of visual space. A proper part of psychology ought to be, and in recent years has been, an effort to try to discover the principles of how we organize visual space. I would say that the same is true of every domain of psychology, of human studies.”

Knows Way Trying Years Humans Has Beens Whole Language Understanding Space Effort Principles Study Psychology One Thing Objects Ought Mass Complexes Behave Visuals Organize Domain

Author:Noam Chomsky

“As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.”

People Needs Trying Humans Self Human Beings Ought Vulnerable Sufficient Good Life Self Sufficient

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.”

Thinking Needs Trying Has Beens Helping Media Ought Republican Criticism Trauma Convinced Decades Therapy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.”

Feels Trying May Doe America Peace Trouble Ought Negative Foundation Preserves Neutrality Negative Words

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.”

Source: Blue Mars

“Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that.” We really all need to chill out.”

Thinking Needs Trying Children Kids Parent Understanding Ought Sitting Meetings Get Away Sacraments Chill

Author:Dean Hughes

“I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.”

“I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

People Want Giving Trying Magic Ought Let Me Telling The Truth Realism

Author:Tennessee Williams

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