Quote

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Patrick Ness

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Patrick Ness
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 17
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Littles
Little
Love
People
Boss
Leadership
Leader
Making
Hate

More quotes by Patrick Ness

Image
You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
Patrick Ness
Image
I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness
Image
You're never more alive than in battle. Never more dead after, I say.
Patrick Ness
Image
The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
Patrick Ness
Image
We just keep on having to save each other, he says. We ever gonna be even? I hope not, I say
Patrick Ness
Image
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
Patrick Ness
Image
HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
Patrick Ness
Image
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
Patrick Ness
Image
Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
Patrick Ness
Image
Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
Patrick Ness
Image
Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness
Image
Viola? Keep calling for me– And I’ll keep searching for you– And I’ll find you– You bet yer life on it– I’ll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.
Patrick Ness
Image
So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
Patrick Ness
Image
You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less
Patrick Ness
Image
But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
Patrick Ness
Image
People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
Patrick Ness
Image
This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
Patrick Ness
Image
even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
Patrick Ness
Image
If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
Patrick Ness
Image
Here's what I think, I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth. I think maybe everybody falls, I say. I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. I think the asking is whether we get back up
Patrick Ness