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Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
Alice Oswald
Wind
Cold
Ought
Air
System
Kind
Verb
Movement
Anything
Information
Warmth
Manner
Really
I have this ridiculous chip on my shoulder, having been a dancer, that I feel like I really ought to be able to do everything myself - but there are some things I very clearly cannot.
Amanda Schull
Myself
Ought
Dancer
Everything
Able
Some
Some Things
Having
Feel
Clearly
Like
Been
Very
Cannot
Chip
Really
Shoulder
Ridiculous
Things
I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in the manner of a thriller. It would finally convince me that I was a real writer.
Amitava Kumar
Me
People
Gone
Ought
Finally
Would
About
Thriller
Write
Writer
Wrong
Between
Couple
Real
Them
Manner
Convince
Files
Thick
Things
If we really mean that people's votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.
Andrew Gillum
Vote
People
Every
Ought
Count
Counted
Takes
Votes
Around
Exist
Mean
Really
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
You
Theatre
Ought
Know
Another
Always
Been
Regrets
Worked
Reason
Shows
I always thought we ought to recognise the blood, sweat and tears - and the sacrifices in being away from home - of former England players, and that current players should know what has come before.
Andrew Strauss
Home
Tears
Thought
Before
Ought
Recognise
Sacrifices
Come
Know
Always
Blood
Current
Being
Former
Sweat
Should
England
Away
Players
As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.
Angela Merkel
Time
Freedom
Law
Live
Consequences
Intervene
Ought
Saw
Citizens
Eastern
No-One
Namely
Protect
Although
Years
Wall
Child
Lack
Being
Order
International
Many
Whole
International Law
Believed
Stark
Violation
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter
Treat
Cause
Ought
Press
Obama
Critics
Like
Him
How
Lincoln
His
Ape
Bush
Really
Illiterate
Compared
Thinks
Treated
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Anthony Trollope
Day
Man
Will
Three
Ought
Write
Hours
Produce
Much
The day that I spearheaded the passage of America Fast Forward... the newspaper of record did not put it in the newspaper; what they put was my breakup with my ex-girlfriend. I took umbrage with that. A great newspaper ought to be printing things that people care about, issues that people care about.
Antonio Villaraigosa
Day
Great
People
Care
Took
Ought
Record
About
Put
Printing
Passage
Issues
America
Did
Breakup
Newspaper
Forward
Fast
Things
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Arthur Bryant
Great
Thought
Dinner
Think
Ought
Secretary
Record
Stays
Great Ones
He
His
Brain
Depart
Report
While
Racking
Growing
Thinks
Thinner
Without any doubt, I'm convinced that Hillary Clinton represents less individuality, flexibility for the states, a weaker national defense. And you know, for all those reasons, we ought to get behind Donald Trump.
Asa Hutchinson
You
National
Doubt
Defense
Ought
States
Those
Weaker
Individuality
Know
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Without
Clinton
Trump
National Defense
Get
Donald
Donald Trump
Any
Behind
Represents
Convinced
Flexibility
Less
Reasons
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Barbara Bush
Government
Money
Ought
Project
Would
Cost
Pick
Lot
Controversial
Decided
Really
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
Barney Frank
You
People
Ethics
Think
Ought
Back
Purposes
Knew
Looked
Committee
Hold
Sent
Them
Should
Serious
Violation
Violations
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Barney Frank
Party
Believe
Ought
Excessive
Allow
Concentration
Majority
Well
Course
Subject
Discussed
Intention
Us
Many
Media
Herta Muller, Mo Yan, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio - for many of us, the Nobels have become doubly educational: We simultaneously learn of an author's existence and find out that we ought to have been reading him or her all along.
Ben Dolnick
Reading
Become
Ought
Out
Find
Simultaneously
Along
Him
Learn
Educational
Been
Existence
Author
Us
Doubly
Many
Her
If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.
Ben Nelson
Move On
Ought
We Cannot
Least
Move
Cannot
Then
Agree
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis
Good
Marriage
Ought
Adds
Spice
Boring
Know
Affair
Getting
Stops
Then
Now
Now And Then
But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
Birch Bayh
Time
Home
Family
You
School
Job
Living
Ought
Back
Airplane
Run
Stay
Stay-At-Home
Having
School Board
Involved
Make
Without
Making
Making A Difference
Go
Get
Difference
Want
Board
Then
Really
Your
Reasonable
You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh
You
Justice
Somebody
Ought
Administrative
Through
Come
Get
Process
Sue
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal
Religion
Ought
Battles
Must
Uncertainty
How
Certain
Act
Sea
Certainty
Many
Things
Save
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
Bob Graham
War
Intelligence
Responsibility
Year
Military
Ought
Resources
Recognize
Take
Withdrawn
Terrorists
Were
Iraq
Offensive
Afghanistan
Where
Used
Pakistan
Last
Last Year
The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'
Brad Paisley
Thought
Ought
Never
Stick
Around
Go
Oh
Artists
While
Who
Cool
I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.
Brian Schatz
Education
School
Believe
Ought
Additional
High
High School
Strongly
Given
Pursue
Just
Anybody
After
Wants
Who
Chance
My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
Brit Hume
Hope
You
People
Wait
Will
Sense
Ought
Indeed
Out
See
About
She
Balanced
Expect
Turn
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan
Respect
Country
Build
Believe
Ought
Our
Rules
Some
Someone
Globalization
Fairness
Around
Am
Fence
Should
Who
Believes
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