God loves us as we are. . . not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be. " --Brennan Manning
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.
Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoterwe ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.
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.
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall,. . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
War ought to be no man's wish.