Dameron Quotes & Sayings

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned. — Alan Arkin

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens. If, still putting all your trust in Knowledge, you try to dodge the difficulty by specialising, you produce a brain bulging out inordinately on one side, on the other cut flat down and mostly paralytic at that: and in short so long as I hold that the Creator has an idea of a man, so long shall I be sure that no uneven specialist realises it. The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate ... but we may agree that, in reading, it is not quantity so much that tells, as quality and thoroughness of digestion. — Arthur Quiller-Couch

Poe readied himself. "The Resistance will not be intimidated by you."
"As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I. — Alan Dean Foster

Despite the importance of his mission, Poe found himself conflicted. Not only did he respect Lor San Tekka, he liked him. How could he leave him here? "Sir, if you don't mind, I - " The older man cut him off. "But I do mind, Poe Dameron. You spoke of your mission." Both his gaze and his tone hardened. "Now fulfill it. Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust." Still, Poe demurred. "With all due respect, some motes are of more importance than others ... sir. — Alan Dean Foster

POE DAMERON'S first ship was his mother's RZ-1 A-wing. — Greg Rucka

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois ... — Susan Sontag

Keep in mind this basic axiom - if all that now exists was once imagined, then what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined. — Wayne W. Dyer

I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them. — Eddie Marsan

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along. — Greg Rucka

The two great movements of our century
towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community
are summed up in Anarchist-Communism. — Peter Kropotkin

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. — Peter F. Drucker

This is Commander Poe Dameron of the Republic Navy, — Greg Rucka