Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
We ought to disarm Germany completely.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
All of us, whether or not we’re celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else’s life better.
From my standpoint, we ought to be talking about… how do you make Wisconsin a more attractive place for risk-taking, business investment, business expansion.
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation’s CFO – quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.
My dad died 11 years ago, I don’t see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don’t hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn’t develop as it ought to.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that’s what I do.
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.
I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be – or as John Doe says in ‘Seven,’ ‘We are not what was intended.’
Every minister knows it’s harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it – none of them pre-planned, and all of them very personal. Whatever they take away from the reading of the book is valuable.
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
To me, there are four F’s in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
I’m very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.
I ask for personal appearance fees because I’ve earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we’re holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn’t manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That’s the biggest thing to think about if you’re not happy.
I ought to be more hardboiled; I’d like to be. I don’t think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes… I can’t do it, so why bother trying?
The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they’ve said they ‘will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.’ I don’t think this ought to be taken kindly.
Nearly all edible seaweeds – or ‘sea vegetables,’ as they ought technically to be called – belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
When I hear Donald Trump say the American military is a disaster, I want to go through the screen and shake the guy. We ought to have a commander in chief who talks about our troops with respect and gratitude.
Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we’re trying to think about.
I ought to pray as much as God’s on my mind, because then I’d pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.
The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.
For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we’re facing.
I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago – the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy.
It’s not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
Without any doubt, I’m convinced that Hillary Clinton represents less individuality, flexibility for the states, a weaker national defense. And you know, for all those reasons, we ought to get behind Donald Trump.
We ought to prioritize national disasters… in a fiscally responsible way.
I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
