What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
Usage ain't always a matter of ought.
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole. . . and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole. . . and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.
The first essential for economists. . . is to. . . combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.
Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated. . . they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.
You ought to go to the Wizard of Oz and ask him for some courage.
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.