Quotes 41 till 60 of 243.
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
The Sign of the Four (1890) Ch. 1 -
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case.
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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
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Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum -
For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
And his hand come down empty...Tapestry (1971)
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