Ought Quotes - Page 38

• We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Force

  4 Copy quote

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

  Bill Parcells

  Want, Dinner, Groceries

  133 Copy quote

• A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

  Glen Cook

  Running, People, Guy

  Glen Cook (1983). “A Shadow of All Night Falling”, Berkley

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Friends, Insects, Draws

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Numbers, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blood, Office, Giving

  Alexander Hamilton, Julius Goebel, Joseph Henry Smith (1969). “The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary”, p.831, Columbia University Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom Of Speech, Abuse, Commit

  4 Copy quote

• Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Ideas, Rescue, Quarrels

  7 Copy quote

• Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about the society, and schools couldn't survive very long if they did that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Teaching, School

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (1992). “Chronicles of dissent”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Want, Painting

  4 Copy quote

• Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Virtue, Honour, Reap

  8 Copy quote

• The more science learns, the clearer it is that although we are here, we shouldn't be. Once we begin considering the details of it all, the towering odds against our existence begin to become a bit unsettling. When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.

  Eric Metaxas

  Thinking, Odds, Miracle

  Eric Metaxas (2014). “Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life”, p.54, Penguin

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

  Stendhal

  Feet, Miserable, Life Is

  30 Copy quote

• It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Opportunity, Excuse, Easy

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2009). “Be Faithful (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon): It's Always Too Soon to Quit!”, p.180, David C Cook

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

  Noel Coward

  Cat, Ems, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

  Monty Roberts

  Want, Chance, Action

  26 Copy quote

• [There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knives, Appreciate, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.221, Psychology Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

  Bertrand Russell

  Looks, World, Faces

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.193, Psychology Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Soldier, He Man

  11 Copy quote

• The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

  Walter Bagehot

  Simple, Short Notice, Bankers

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Coffee, Believe

  14 Copy quote

• When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

  Paul Auster

  Reading, Mind, Sound

  "The mighty Quinn". Interview with James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

  David Hilbert

  Philosophical, Believe, Self

  8 Copy quote

• A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

  Michelangelo

  Art, Perfection, Overcoming

  29 Copy quote

• What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

  C. Z. Guest

  Horse, Clothes, People

  4 Copy quote