Star Wars Jedi Council Quotes & Sayings

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth. — Elizabeth Warren

So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament - the presentiment of death and awareness of life - and avoid being transfixed by either of them. If we are lucky in this uncertain middle distance, we may form attachments and projects that enhance the sentiment of life. However, even as we try our luck, death comes to us, and brings our experiment to a end. — Roberto Mangabeira Unger

I will never, ever run from you, Lachlan.
I'll only run toward you. Always. — Karina Halle

The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder. — Gilbert N. Lewis

I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were standing on the beach anymore. It felt like we were balanced on a thin, thin line. That fragile one that divides the invisible space between something and nothing, or before and after. — Jessi Kirby

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails. — Henry David Thoreau

Have you had this place inspected?" he asked. "The house is ready to fall off its timbers. I couldn't risk coming in here without offering a quick prayer to Butyakengo."
"Who?"
"A Gypsy protective spirit." He smiled at her. "But now that I'm here, I'll take my chances. — Lisa Kleypas

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive. — James Surowiecki

You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper. — Patricia Reilly Giff

Sometimes it was like I was hollow, and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. I wanted to give up, throw my hands in the air, and scream I was done.But I couldn't. I had to keep going, for her — Scarlett Grove

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification — George Lois

I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done. — Joe Jamail

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. — George Washington