I'm attempting to make this a page of my favorite quotes from all sources. Basically, it's like my Wookieepedia page, except it's not restricted to Star Wars. It's a work in progress and will be so for sometime.
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Star Wars
edit…And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as THE SON OF THE SUNS.
— Journal of the Whills, 3:127, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (novel)
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.
— Luke Skywalker, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
The enemy has found me, Ulic, but the enemy knows only darkness. I know what the enemy does not…I know the Light.
— Arca Jeth, Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
— The Sith Code, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Under the tongue root a fight most dread, and another raging behind, in the head.
— Duel of the Fates, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Maybe it's because I'm better. Or maybe I'm just lucky.
— Wedge Antilles, The New Essential Guide to Characters
Concentrate all fire on that Super Star Destroyer!
— Ackbar, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
May the Force be with us.
— Ackbar, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
We're going to smash the Vong! We're going to smash them every day! We're going to smash them until there are no more Yuuzhan Vong!
— Traest Kre'fey, Destiny’s Way
It's Jacen. Jaina got him.
— Leia Organa Solo, Invincible (novel)
There are thousands of warriors out here. You are only one man!
I am only one Jedi.
You're insane!
No. I am Ganner. This threshold is mine. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass.— Nom Anor and Ganner Rhysode, Traitor
He was born to be a legend.
— Vergere, Traitor
I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend…At last, the Jedi are no more.
Not if anything to say about it, I have! At an end your rule is, and not short enough it was.— Palpatine and Yoda, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
— Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
All things die, Anakin Skywalker. Even stars burn out.
— Anakin Skywalker's thougts, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (novel)
Do-ro'ik vong pratte!
— Yuuzhan Vong battle cry, Vector Prime (novel)
Give yourself to the dark side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for…Sister! So…you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will.
— Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Lord Vader, this is an unexpected pleasure. We're honored by your presence.
You may dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I'm here to put you back on schedule.
I assure you, Lord Vader, my men are working as fast as they can.
Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them.
I tell you, this station will be operational as planned.
The Emperor does not share your optimistic appraisal of the situation.
But he asks the impossible. I need more men.
Then perhaps you can tell him when he arrives.
The Emperor's coming here?
That is correct, Commander. And he is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress.
We shall double our efforts.
I hope so, Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.— Jerjerrod and Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
— Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Oh, no, my young Jedi. You will find that it is you who are mistaken…about a great many things.
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. You, like your father, are now mine!
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Only heroes die. Villains and cowards are left to suffer.
— Adalric Brandl, The Final Exit
I can die a hundred times, Exile, and still I will rise again, as strong as before.
Tell yourself that a hundred times, and I shall strike you down a hundred times.— Darth Sion and the Jedi Exile, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Men like me don't start the wars. We just die in them. We've always died in them, and we always will. We don't expect any praise for it, no parades. No one knows our names.
— Alpha-98, The Cestus Deception
From water we're born, in fire we die. We seed the stars.
— Alpha-98, The Cestus Deception
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
— Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Search your feelings, father. You can't do this. I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your hate.
It is…too late for me, son.— Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans, and bring me the passengers. I want them alive!
— Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Nothing will convince me the computer doesn't cheat.
— Atton Rand, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
It does not matter where we go. It is not the destination that matters. It is the journey.
— Kreia, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him.
That's what I'm afraid of.— Beru Lars and Owen Lars, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Everyone dies. It's the final and only lasting Justice. Evil exists; it is intelligence in the service of entropy. When the side of a mountain slides to kill a village, this is not evil, for evil requires intent. Should a sentient being cause that landslide, there is evil; and requires Justice as a consequence, so that civilization can exist. There is no greater good than Justice; and only if law serves Justice is it a good law. It is said correctly that law exists not for the Just but for the unjust, for the Just carry the law in their hearts, and do not need to call it from afar. I bow to no one and give service only for cause.
— Boba Fett, The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett
They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally, they became heroes.
— Leia Organa Solo, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel)
Why, the memory demands alone would force me to remove millions of language translators and inflection interpreters. That would be disastrous. I might even become more aggressive.
That would be terrible. What form would this aggression take? Would you strangle security officers and kick children?
Oh, no, Mistress. But I might become…more sarcastic. Even verbally abusive.— C-3PO and Leia Organa Solo, Betrayal
Attention Mandalorians! Goodvalor, again. While you're waiting for the end to come — and brother, is it on its way! — I thought we'd have a talk about you. You know, the Mando'ade — the 'sons and daughters of Mandalore.' That sounds nice, but I hate to break it to most of you: You're adopted.
— Goodvalor, Interference
You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on twelve systems.
I'll be careful.
You'll be dead!— Cornelius Evazan and Luke Skywalker, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
You know impossible is what Rogue Squadron does best of all.
— Corran Horn, X-wing: The Krytos Trap
Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it.
— Darth Bane, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Go on to your higher plane, teacher. The galaxy is mine now.
— Exar Kun, Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home.
— Han Solo, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
— Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Death is an old friend.
— Kopecz, Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall. That is the way of things…the way of the Force.
— Yoda, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
I will surrender, Admiral, when I can no longer fight!
— Gar Stazi, Star Wars Legacy 21: Indomitable, Part 2
So be it…Jedi.
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.
— Darth Maul, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Power! Unlimited power!
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
No. I am your father.— Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
He's more machine now than man; twisted and evil.
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station.
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Chancellor.
Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?
The Senate will decide your fate.
I am the Senate!
Not yet.
It's treason, then.— Mace Windu and Palpatine, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
— Matt Stover's narration, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (novel)
Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.
— Palpatine, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
We are from another galaxy, Jedi Horn. We crossed the starless night for age upon age.
— Yu'shaa, The Final Prophecy
The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that…it was the Republic.
— Journal of the Whills, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel)
What could you hate enough to destroy me?
Myself.— Darth Maul and Darth Vader, Resurrection
Keep fighting until you can fight no longer, then exhaust the enemy chasing you, and turn and fight some more. Keep fighting. I promise you, we will prevail.
— Leia Organa Solo, Star by Star
Though battles have been lost, the Alliance still lives. We have not surrendered, we do not concede the stars. We will win back our birthright. Freedom.
— Jaius Yorub, Star Wars: Legacy 21: Indomitable, Part 2
History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance. And those who stand in our way will not watch at all.
— Mitth'raw'nuruodo, The Last Command
Lord of the Rings
editThree for the Elven-kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone
Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
— Lore, The Lord of the Rings
You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You shall not pass!
— Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord.
— Gandalf, The Two Towers
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not.
— Gandalf, The Two Towers
Death is just another path…one that we all must take.
— Gandalf, The Return of the King (film)
I am old, Gandalf. I know I don't look it, but I'm beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts.
— Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring
Come, Mr. Frodo! I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.
— Samwise Gamgee, The Return of the King
Now for wrath, now for ruin, and a red nightfall!
— Eomer, The Return of the King
Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as a life age of the earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I have been sent back, until my task is done.
— Gandalf, The Two Towers (film)
Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!
— Aragorn, The Return of the King (film)
Arise! Arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered - a sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride to ruin, and the world's ending!
— Theoden, The Return of the King (film)
Songs
editYes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
— Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin
Human beings in a mob
What’s a mob to a king?
What’s a king to a god?
What’s a god to a non-believer?
Who don’t believe in anything?
— No Church in the Wild, Frank Ocean
There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
— Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin
All my life I've been crossing borders
transcending time and again.
— Dreamcatcher, Keldian
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
— Time, Pink Floyd
Other films
editI seek…the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
— Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely – a legend.
— Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins
Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
— James Gordon, The Dark Knight
Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
— Alfred, The Dark Knight
Look at you go!
— The Joker, The Dark Knight
Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck.
— Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
— Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you…stranger.
— The Joker, The Dark Knight
You'll just have to imagine the fire.
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises
Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity.
— Maximus, Gladiator
The world will look up and shout "save us," and I'll whisper "no".
— Rorschach, Watchmen (trailer)
Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong.
— Godfrey of Ibelin, Kingdom of Heaven
Other literature
editI face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more.
— Regulus Black, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
— Hamlet, Hamlet
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
— Darkess
OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
— Invictus
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
— MacBeth, Macbeth
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
— Ozymandias
We see this all the time. Journalists, rushing to get a story out under deadline pressure, will report, based on preliminary information, that a ship sank, and 127 people, many of them elderly, perished. Then, upon further investigation, it turns out that nobody, in fact, perished, although one elderly person was slightly injured by a set of dentures hurled by another elderly person in an effort to get the first elderly person to stop talking so loud. Then it turns out that this happened at a nursing home, as opposed to a ship, although the elderly people were watching a video of Titanic at the time, and although there were only four of them, as opposed to 127, the nursing home is located on Route 124, which is only three less than 127, which is not that much of an error when you consider the deadline pressure that journalists operate under.
— Dave Barry, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
Real-life people
editOutlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below.
— Grantland Rice
You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
— William Gaddis
Do not go gentle into that good night.
— Dylan Thomas
It is not sufficient that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.
— Genghis Khan
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
— Jacob Riis
Any single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung stars billions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and chance brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate — your brain — that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.
— V.S. Ramachandran
Now he belongs to the ages.
— Edwin M. Stanton
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Veni, vidi, vici.
— I came, I saw, I conquered, Julius Caesar
Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.
— Mike Tyson
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
— Vince Lombardi
Let freedom ring.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
— Winston Churchill
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.
— Winston Churchill
…I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
— Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
— Winston Churchill
I have not yet begun to fight!
— John Paul Jones
…That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
— William Penn
Miscellaneous
editAbraham Lincoln once said, 'If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North.'
— Michael Scott, The Office—Diversity Day
I'll be a story in your head. But that's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
— The Doctor, Doctor Who—The Big Bang
Because I've seen him. And he's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm and the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe... And he's wonderful
— Tim Latimer, Doctor Who—Family of Blood
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
— The Second Coming
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
— Who watches the watchmen?, Satires of Juvenal
Veritas vos liberabit.
— The truth shall set you free, Verse 8:32 of the Gospel of John
I saw eternity the other night
Like a great Ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright.
— The World
Carpe diem.
— Seize the day, Horace
Your taste buds can't repel flavor of that magnitude!
— Ackbar
The jerk store called. They're RUNNING out of you!
— George Costanza, Seinfeld
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,
it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway