Quotes About Ought

Sometimes big boxing matches should take place on the cobbles. That's really where Mikkel Kessler and me ought to have sorted it out.

I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify those things in the past that are useful and those things that are not; and they ought to give nourishment.

The rule for social witness is that faithfulness is a higher virtue than effectiveness. Some things ought indeed to be done regardless of whether by human calculations they promise to be effective; and other things ought not to be done, no matter how effective they may promise to be.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

Why does a bear shit in the woods? he demanded. Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man like Littlefinger. You ought to know that, you of all people.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

If a conceptual distinction is to be made, the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language, it cannot be made conceptually.

Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power.

Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same.

What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle – in the 'what ought to be.

men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators.

One does not rise above the everyday simply because one ought to.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Damn, girl. You space so hard, you ought to look into a career at NASA.

universal laws prescribe how things will behave not, like human laws, how they ought to behave.

the outer life we live from ought (I ought to do this) rather than from desire (I want to do this) and management substitutes for mystery.

Fame is the enemy of instinct and spontaneity, the difference between what is said and what ought to be said, and the transformation of one person into two

God is "all in all." He therefore is, or ought to be, the only supreme, absolute object of our thoughts and desires; other things are from and for him only.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, "I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...

We do not what we ought;What we ought not, we do;And lean upon the thoughtThat chance will bring us through.