Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Ben Nelson

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

James F. Amos

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Walter Kirn

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

Jane Austen

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

Edward Kennedy

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

David Foster Wallace

Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.

Diogenes

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Daniel Woodrell

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to raze that prison,

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Charles Spurgeon

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

We ought to have some resolution of this matter. Instead, there just seems to be a sweeping -- there seems to be a policy of sweeping it under the rug.

Tom DeLay

We ought to be proud of that. But what are we doing in Washington? We're pointing our fingers. We're talking about process.

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.

Um, ah, and, you know, like, are words that ought to be used sparingly when speaking in public.

Michael Moore

We think the people who have paid the bill, the taxpayers of this country, ought to be reimbursed for that.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

My tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to taste, ought to taste and still do taste.

Dan Miller

My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

I still think they ought to give it back,

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Susan Vreeland

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.