Top 100 John Miller Quotes
#1. It is often written that, during his presidency, the General was not a politician. Of course, he was a great politician in large part because he was not perceived as a politician. It
John Ripin Miller
#2. When you don't have a choice, you don't have a problem.
John J. Miller
#4. We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.
John Jackson Miller
#5. But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.
John Jackson Miller
#6. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#7. The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.
John Jackson Miller
#9. A good politician always knew which way the winds were blowing: a better politician made the weather himself.
John Jackson Miller
#10. He'd known only that, in the end, the Force hadn't helped her. Or any of the other Jedi he'd heard about.
John Jackson Miller
#11. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#12. For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
Zell Miller
#13. I like fighters. That's why I love Russ Feingold. I love Barbara Boxer. And Howard Dean and John Conyers. Democrats I talk to around the country want their leaders to come out and fight for them.
Stephanie Miller
#14. Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road.
Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass
John Ringo
#15. Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor.
John W. Miller
#17. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#18. There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.
John Miller
#19. Ownership: 'A commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix the blame.
John G. Miller
#20. I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'
John Benjamin Hickey
#21. Definition of responsibility: a commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix blame.
John G. Miller
#22. God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.
C. John Miller
#23. Consciously, she thought she had her feelings for him licked; subconsciously, every time she thought about him, it was as though someone stumbling around inside her head had kicked over a bucket of electric eels.
John Ramsey Miller
#24. I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.
John Jackson Miller
#25. I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)
John Filo
#26. There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.
John Jackson Miller
#27. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#28. 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?
John Jackson Miller
#30. Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include - like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.
John H. Miller
#31. Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
Glenn Miller
#32. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#33. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#34. For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin
John Jackson Miller
#36. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#37. Life was like a cannon, Beld Yulan had always said. "You've got to clear the empty casings before you can fire again." As
John Jackson Miller
#38. John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.
Zell Miller
#39. Here's a QBQ twist for all of us: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know - it's me!
John G. Miller
#40. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#41. And the Force? Well, it might be with him, or it might not. Kanan would get by, either way. He always had.
John Jackson Miller
#42. The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.
John Jackson Miller
#43. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#44. You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon--for both sides."
-Grand Lord Hilts
John Jackson Miller
#45. People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Miller
#46. I got into comics on John Byrne's run of the X-Men and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I got in around X-Men 95, right when it turned to the new X-Men. So that whole family, all those characters are kind of my favorite characters, just the X-Men world.
Timothy Miller
#47. The seventh John Smith had even conspired to have a conspiracy against himself in Argentina, with resulting civil war, so that the weapons could be tested under actual battle conditions--for the region had been overpopulated anyway.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#48. Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you?
John Jackson Miller
#49. We want God to show us the "practical" things. Who should I marry? What career should I pursue? We want guidance, but Jesus wants to give us himself. Jesus is the light of the world: he is the answer. He wants to show his glory in our lives.
C. John Miller
#50. Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.
John G. Miller
#51. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#53. Kanan thumped his chest. "I'm a man with a mission."
"You're an oaf with a delusion.
John Jackson Miller
#54. The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER
John C. Maxwell
#55. All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.
John Jackson Miller
#57. It's good to have an ally in the military who understands what I'm doing.
John Jackson Miller
#58. A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside.
John Jackson Miller
#59. I did work with John McCain. I did work with Jeff Miller over in the House. And we put together not the bill that I wanted, but probably the most comprehensive V.A. health care bill in the modern history of this country.
Bernie Sanders
#60. Selling is not complicated. If salespeople consistently practice the fundamentals - getting up early, contacting prospective clients, sharing their belief in their products and services, following up with customers - they'll be successful.
John G. Miller
#61. Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.
John W. Miller
#62. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#64. It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.
John G. Miller
#65. We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family!
John G. Miller
#66. Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.
John G. Miller
#67. 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?
John Jackson Miller
#68. John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court!
Arthur Miller
#70. Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
John Lennon
#71. Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
Studs Terkel
#72. Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.
John Heywood
#73. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#74. Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.
John G. Miller
#75. There are truths, and there are legends touched with truth, and all can teach you something.
John Jackson Miller
#76. Democratic candidate John Kerry on Tuesday chose fellow Senator John Edwards to be his running mate. Asked about Edwards' lack of foreign policy experience, Kerry revealed his new campaign slogan, 'I Promise Not to Die.'
Dennis Miller
#77. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#79. Starships are fun to fly around in, but they're no place to entertain.
John Jackson Miller
#80. It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.
John Jackson Miller
#81. Jesus was born under the law of God and took on himself the condemnation we deserved for our sin. Now the full legal rights of adoption are given to us who are in Christ by faith.
C. John Miller
#82. Often she would lock herself in her room and sitting before the mirror, apply the makeup of John Barrymore, Barrymore of The Sea Beast or of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seeing these gruesome images in the mirror she would being to rave. "Who am I?" she would say. "What am I?
Henry Miller
#83. 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.
John Jackson Miller
#84. When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know it's got legs.
Phil Bredesen
#85. The definition of integrity is this:
Being what I say I am by acting in accordance with my words.
John G. Miller
#86. The bareheaded others comprising Vader's squad were human regulars who had enlisted after the war.
John Jackson Miller
#87. I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there. I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic.
John Daly
#89. John Proctor's flaw is his failure, until the last moment, to distinguish guilt from responsibility; America's is to believe that it is at the same time both guilty and without flaw.
Arthur Miller
#90. One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.
John Jackson Miller
#91. She saw stormtroopers running down the metal steps to the main floor. And now she looked directly into the terrifying eyes of Count Vidian.
John Jackson Miller
#92. One of the things I admire most about John is his ability to hold compassion in one hand and justice in the other. He offers both liberally and yet they don't cancel each other out.
Donald Miller
#93. may the Force be with you all while we wait with bated breath for Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
John Jackson Miller
#94. the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.
John Jackson Miller
#96. We need to own problems - but we can't own them all!
John G. Miller
#98. When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening
John Jackson Miller
#99. You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.
John Jackson Miller
#100. 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.
John Jackson Miller
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