Oughts Quotes

#1. The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen

#2. There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

Parker Palmer

#3. Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

Clint Smith

#4. The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you're doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

Brian Morton

#5. Sometimes the best books are hidden gems that you didn't even know were out there!

Carmela Dutra

#6. A Book in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A.J. DeJong

#7. Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.

Edwin Markham

#8. I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I'm super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool!

Britt Robertson

#9. Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke ... tumors.

Bo Burnham

#10. For this indiscretion Seneca relegates the emperor (Claudius) to a Sisyphean gamester's hell: condemned eternally to pick up the bones and thow them into a dice cup that has no bottom.

Ricky Jay

#11. A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

Ernst Mach

#12. It's not been a pleasant life.

Benny Hinn

#13. Fraternities aren't cool at all, not in the real, rock-and-roll sense, the one I now knew. They have a reputation of housing douchebags that pay for friends and try to seem better than everyone else, and actually smart, cool people shouldn't want to be a part of anything like that.

A.D. Aliwat