Ought Quotes

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The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

The first and fiercest punishment ought to fall first on the traitor, second on the enemy. If I had but one bullet and I were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

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

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.