Top 60 John Jackson Miller Quotes
#1. We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.
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#2. But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.
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#3. Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?"..."And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?"..."EVERYBODY'S got something like that.
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#4. The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.
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#5. A good politician always knew which way the winds were blowing: a better politician made the weather himself.
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#6. He'd known only that, in the end, the Force hadn't helped her. Or any of the other Jedi he'd heard about.
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#7. When the stormtroopers parted, Hera saw Gord crawling back toward Moonglow's gate. She blinked away a tear of anger. Yes, she needed to see these things, to remind her what she was fighting for.
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#9. I don't take orders from you." Then Skelly looked out the landing bay entrance at Cynda. He winked. "I saved you, sweetheart!" He pushed the button.
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#10. I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.
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#11. There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.
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#12. Firing a manager inspired only the ambitious who wanted to take his or her place. But murder motivated everyone. It belonged in every supervisor's tool kit.
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#13. Maybe that's part of why people on Gorse live as they do - because doomsday's coming. But we were told it wouldn't happen for thousands of years, so not to worry." Hera nodded. "But what if it happened tomorrow?
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#14. She eagerly showed him her updates - and he ignored her obvious disappointment as he just as quickly undid them, stripping away one safety practice after another. Toxic exposure was a small price to pay to meet the Emperor's quota.
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#15. But what was happening to Gorse and Cynda was beyond serious. It was the sort of thing she'd vowed to stop someday. The day had just come early - too early, before she'd assembled a capable team. Not exactly the new dawn she'd had in mind.
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#16. For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin
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#17. Imperial Navy had been in existence by that name for less than a decade, since Chancellor Palpatine put down the traitorous Jedi and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire.
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#18. Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As
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#19. Maybe she could've come back from her suspension and gone back to work at Transcept, as if nothing had happened. But she couldn't. Because something had happened. A lot of somethings. And it meant she could never return to that life, if she even wanted to. And she didn't.
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#20. And the Force? Well, it might be with him, or it might not. Kanan would get by, either way. He always had.
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#21. The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.
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#22. When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely solely on each other, the Force, and their awesome martial skills to prevail.
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#23. You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon--for both sides."
-Grand Lord Hilts
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#24. Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you?
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#25. Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it - the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death. But I have come back from the dead. And through me, the Empire will control everything.
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#27. Kanan thumped his chest. "I'm a man with a mission."
"You're an oaf with a delusion.
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#28. All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.
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#30. It's good to have an ally in the military who understands what I'm doing.
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#31. A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside.
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#32. Or maybe it's time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren't gods - just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I'm sure we can.
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#34. He stepped over to Vidian and turned the man's head. There, in his left ear, he saw a small dataport. A moment's revulsion struck and passed. "All right," he said. "Who wants to download Vidian's brain?
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#36. Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.
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#37. There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.
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#38. The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they're doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.
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#40. Starships are fun to fly around in, but they're no place to entertain.
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#41. It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.
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#42. Starships were settlements in the sky. Some were villages; Ultimatum was a great metropolis. And yet even Star Destroyers functioned like small towns. A big sink full of gossip - and as with small towns, the contents all tended to flow toward one person, like water to a drain.
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#43. The bareheaded others comprising Vader's squad were human regulars who had enlisted after the war.
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#44. One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.
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#45. She saw stormtroopers running down the metal steps to the main floor. And now she looked directly into the terrifying eyes of Count Vidian.
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#46. may the Force be with you all while we wait with bated breath for Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
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#47. the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.
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#50. When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening
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#51. You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.
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#52. That's why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It's like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It's got to consume, and consume, and consume.
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#53. enough for the Republic - but the Empire is order from chaos. What we do here - and in thousands of systems just like this one - brings us closer to our ultimate goal." Sloane thought for a moment. "Perfection?" "Whatever the Emperor wants.
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#54. Unfortunately, Bretorius had found mediocrity too high a bar. He had advanced in the fleet the old-fashioned way: he'd stuck around so long they had to give him a command, or muster him out.
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#55. Kanan sometimes wondered how the stormtrooper uniform suppliers kept up with the demand. When the Imperials reached the fringe of the galaxy, what would they be wearing?
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#56. All life is sacred. Even life that comes in forms that we don't understand." - Obi-Wan Kenobi
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#58. Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.
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#59. Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.
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#60. Droid Gotra, a lethal band of repurposed battle droids with what some considered legitimate grievances against the Empire for having been abandoned after their service during the Clone Wars.
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