Patrick Ness Quotes

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Patrick Ness

• World
• Men
• Knowledge
• Changes
• Dangerous

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Business
  • Together

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Integrity
  • Changes

• I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Man

• I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Dove

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Work
  • Men
  • Woman

• Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Change
  • Surprise

• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Work
  • Changes
  • Salvation

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Political
  • Environmental

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • World
  • Trying
  • Happen

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Children
  • Home

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  

  James K. Polk
  • World
  • Country
  • Peace

• The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.

  

  George Gilder
  • World
  • Important
  • Risk

• I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Past

• My mother's rules had to do with feminine deportment, so I never played hard enough to break a toy or muddy my dress. My father's rules had to do with never shaming the family by even a hint of scandal, and not providing business rivals with an opportunity to kidnap me or throw acid in my face.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • Family
  • Business
  • Mother

• Heroes & Villains: Jerry Cantrell. Louder Sound (July 16, 2014).

  

  Jerry Cantrell

• Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Men
  • Knowledge