I don’t say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years.
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together – wham – like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn’t mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, ‘Oh, that’s cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.’
I personally feel all guns ought to be registered.
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone’s health care.
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
It’s a hard process to navigate… to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don’t apologize for that, and I don’t think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
After ‘A Suitable Boy,’ I didn’t write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: ‘I ought to start writing.’ But I can never force myself to write.
The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God.
I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
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.
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn’t really anything. It’s a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
I think it’s unfair that people can’t give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person – you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, ‘You can give your assets to anybody you want.’
Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
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.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
If you don’t like my book, write your own. If you don’t think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don’t like my novels, find a book you do like.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
It is necessary to try to pass one’s self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be – how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don’t know how many years now.
I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn’t free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.
A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven’t eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you’re doing something wrong.
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn’t have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America’s poor deserve better than this.
One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.
Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send… We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.
Most of us don’t mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn’t interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
