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I passed that day in pleasure, which is to say, in the sort of work I wanted to do rather than the work that I thought I ought to be doing. — Robin Hobb

Men ought to be a four-letter word! Menn! — Becky Lewellen Povich

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event. — Julia Child

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,. — Julie Gerberding

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. — John Ruskin

Life is your sacred journey. You ought to enjoy every moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. — John Owen

It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - — J.K. Rowling

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement. — Jerry Coleman

Girl that age ought not to have so many troubles, but she did. Looking at it that way, them two was about made for each other. — Bryn Greenwood

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of. — Viggo Mortensen

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it? — Edwin Lefevre

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. — Toni Morrison

If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations. — James Madison

Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more. — Alex Comfort

You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench. — George R R Martin

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. — Stephanie Perkins

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. — Jane Austen

They ought to create a new league for that guy. — Jack Harshman

You ought to explore, search and seek the boundless possibilities in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to learn as best as you can. — Lailah Gifty Akita

George Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear — George Washington

Why should he be spared?'
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared. — Catherynne M Valente

I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined. — Jane Ace

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. — Eleanor Catton

If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam. — Paul Broun

Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach. — Alexandre Dumas

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! — Terry Pratchett

You know, you're the sort of woman who ought to be raped. It might do you good — Agatha Christie

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man. — Germaine Greer

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not. — Lord Chesterfield

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences. — Edith Wharton

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. — Howard Zinn

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. — Aristotle.

We can't ask God to come and fix our nation while we have not done our absolute best. This ought not to be so!!! — Sunday Adelaja

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. — Christopher Hitchens

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. — Richard Cecil

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. — D.H. Lawrence

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off. — Matthew Macfadyen

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all. — John Keats

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. — John Bentley

We ought to face our destiny with courage. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty. — Julian Barnes

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. — Herman Melville

We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be" -Archer — Richard Peck

Those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight. — Plato

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. — Laurence Sterne

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. — George McGovern

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. — Lou Holtz

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ... — Larry Wall

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

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. — Henry Lawson

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we don't want to do it. — Peter Marshall

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs. — Brother Lawrence

He thought: This town has the wrong name. It ought to be Time. — Stephen King

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system. — William H. Gray

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. — Charles Wagner

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. — Richard Hooker

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center. — James A. Michener

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them. — John Vianney

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel De Cervantes

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves. — George William Norris

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi

Believe that story false that ought not to be true. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

[Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution. — Bill Readings

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one. — Mark Rippetoe

A man ought to do what he thinks is right — John Wayne

His days were full and they were filled decently, he supposed it was all a man ought to ask. Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. — Edith Wharton

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. — Joseph Wood Krutch

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin

The powers contained in a constitution ... ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. — Alexander Hamilton

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better. — Jean De La Bruyere

[I]t is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. — Beryl Markham

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind. — Charles Spurgeon

A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian. — D.L. Moody

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance — James Madison

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it. — John Selden

My God, you big dark handsome brute! I ought to throw a Buick at you. — Raymond Chandler

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. — Jonathan Swift

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject. — Eliza Haywood

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer

Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others. — Carson Cistulli

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey. — Annie Besant

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. — Frank Moore Colby

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go. — Heinrich Boll

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil

Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever. — Anonymous

I can turn every "is" into "ought ". — Kevin DeYoung