“No, General. I’m not your subordinate. And what I’m coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles”

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone’s satisfaction.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you’ve constructed an entire philosophy of evil.” –Luke Skywalker

I marked their location in case Kell wanted to blow them up or something.” “I don’t have to blow up everything I see. I just like to.

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas.” “You haven’t heard all our ideas.” Luke & Bhindi Drayson

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.” “Crash.” “Quite slowly.” Face & Luke

I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?

When all else fails, complicate matters

That was interesting.” “He deliberately countermanded one of my orders.” “He was furtive.” “Sneaky, even.” “We’ll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet.” Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I’ll shoot him under the table.” Han (to Leia)

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

The refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.

Men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them — not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.