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“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

“The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.”

People Humans Art Sometimes Accepting Human Nature Acceptance Serious Ought Ocean Paint Unfortunate Quirks

Author:Robert Genn

“I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes America Powerful Attention Gone Sky Masters Ought Authority Bird Bills Congress Symbols Range Ran Soar Eagles Herds Surveys Selected Buffalo

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”

Littles Sometimes Helping Home Faces Boys Ought Ambition Folks China Miles Bombs Aggressive Ambitious Asia Asian Rockets Impatient Miles Away Away From Home Bluffs

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.”

Littles Sometimes Love Is Ought Corners Cosy

Author:Doris Lessing

“Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality.”

Knows World Should Writing May Book Different Sometimes Use Spirit Ought Errors Critics Arrogance Brutality Firmness

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“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

“Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."”

Said Sometimes Done Happens Jesus Process Happened Atheism Ought Positive Atheism Messiah Inverse

Book:The Life of Jesus

Source: The Life of Jesus

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.”

Men Firsts Sometimes Seems Known Ought Compare Fbi Fingerprints

Author:Mae West

“We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.”

Ifs Giving Sometimes Use Pain Friends Ought Benefits Musician Medicine Patient Improvement Preserves Pleasant Chords Biting

Book:Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto

Source: Morals: Ethical Essays. Translated, with Notes and Index. by Arthur Richard Shilleto