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.
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.
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.
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces
I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.
You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun. . . But underneath they feed a hunger for justice. . . you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned. . . . . . But how could he manage to burn her dress? She'd have to not be wearing it, and that posed a certain challenge in and of itself.
Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids. ” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that. ” We really all need to chill out.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.
I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.