Ought Quotes - Page 27

• No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

  Edna Ferber

  Intelligent, Ifs

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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• The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.

  Kanye West

  People, Asking, Autographs

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• Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.

  Elinor Glyn

  Years, Europe, Cities

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.313, eBookIt.com

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• All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

  George Sand

  Wise, Exercise, Men

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• Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

  Novalis

  Perfect, Silence, Delicacy

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• Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

  Washington Gladden

  Lying, Special, Flattery

  Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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• All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

  Francis Beaumont

  Men, Thinking, Secret

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• I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

  Jane Ace

  Thinking, People, Psychiatry

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• People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.

  Rae Foley

  Pain, Nice, Thinking

  Rae Foley (1976). “Put out the light”, Dodd Mead

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• 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.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Views, Justice

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.126, Macmillan

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• We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Mean, Profound

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.248, St. Martin's Press

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• You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

  Edna Buchanan

  Family, Brain, Trying

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four”, p.193, Diversion Books

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Thinking, Personality

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Guilt, Sometimes, Found

  Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”

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• In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taught Us, World, Lessons

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.

  Mary Lamb

  Talking, Remembrance, Advice

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1905). “The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb: Letters, 1796-1834”

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• You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

  Ann Richards

  Baseball, Fun, Cells

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• You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Commitment, Maturity

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

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• Anytime your banner becomes anything other than Jesus Christ you ought to be afraid of Hell. If your banner is “I'm a Calvinist”, if your banner is “I'm a homeschooler”, if your banner is this, that, or anything else, if you're rallying under any other name than Jesus Christ; you're in danger. You are in danger!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Names, Hell

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• One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

  Tove Jansson

  Family, Spring, Secret

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• Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

  Philip Schaff

  Religion, Liberty, Inseparable

  Philip Schaff (2017). “Church and State in The United States: The American Idea of Religious Liberty and its Practical Effects”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  Vance Palmer

  Cities, Giving, Creative

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• Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.

  James Madison

  Men, Race, People

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• Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Powerful, Sisterhood, Feminism

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.189, Oxford University Press on Demand

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