I never claimed to be the Chosen One. That was Qui-Gon. Even the Council doesn’t believe it anymore, so why should you? Because I think you believe it, Obi-Wan said calmly.I think you know in your hea...
You don’t mind that the war will go on and on?Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it’s up to people like you to end it. Tarkin nodded. And so we shall.
Tarkin himself had discussed the need for such a weapon with the Emperor long before the end of the Clone Wars. But no one outside the Emperor knew the full history of the moonlet-sized project. Some...
If we aren't willing to do whatever is required, he said finally, then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.
I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin
You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.
Qui-Gon was the key to everything.
I don’t work for the Republic, and I’m certainly not about to work for Count Dooku. Science doesn’t take sides, is that it?
The power of the dark side is an illness no true Sith would wish to be cured of.
Tarkin smiled. Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.
The Goliath could have been carrying a squadron of the new—and seemingly disposable—TIE fighters.
Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targe...
My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire’s intelligence chiefs.
The time had come to give the rest of the galaxy a look at Darth Vader.
Space was more appropriate for the Sith than for the Jedi. The invisible enslavement to gravity, the contained power of the stars, the utter insignificance of life … Hyperspace, by contrast, was more...
We warp space and time to twist the galaxy to our own design.
Uncertainty is the first step toward self-determination, Plagueis said. Courage comes next.
Success doesn’t come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself.
His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as the Tarkin Rush,
You will be in charge of that, Moff Tarkin. Or should I say Grand Moff Tarkin. Tarkin’s gaped in genuine surprise. Grand Moff?