Quotes for All
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it’s really a Photoshoped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough … Read more
The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it to her list of useful skills she needed to acquire along with hand-to-hand combat and the recipe for pesto. If her life were to continue on its present track which after 26 years … Read more
What are you reading? Owen asks. Charlotte’s Web, Liz says. It’s really sad. One of the main characters just died. You ought to read the book from end to beginning, Owen jokes. That way, no one dies, and it’s always a happy ending. Gabrielle Zevin
A month’s intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of ‘calculus for engineers’. G. H. Hardy
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how. G. H. Hardy
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be. G. E. M. Anscombe
Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men ought always to pray, and not to faint. How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray. G. Campbell Morgan
Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray. G. Campbell Morgan
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting – so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness. … Read more
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound