"War makes monsters of men, you once said……" — Patrick Ness
"War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him."
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197 Quotes by Patrick Ness
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is…
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There's always beauty, if you know where to look.
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And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
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Stories don’t always have happy endings.
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world,…
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking…
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But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes…
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves…
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Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet…
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Teenagers are the greatest readers in the world - honest, unsnobby and loyal
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More Control Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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