Top 60 Matthew Woodring Stover Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?”

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2. “Only human, after all.”

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3. “When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.”

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4. “It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest.”

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5. “Opposites attract, but similarities bind.”

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6. “At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.”

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7. “The dark is generous, and it is patient. It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt. The dark can be patient, because the slightest drop of rain will cause those seeds to sprout. The rain will come, and the seeds will sprout, for the dark is the soil in which they grow, and it is the clouds above them, and it waits behind the star that gives them light. The dark’s patience is infinite. Eventually, even stars burn out.”

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8. “Until the possible becomes actual, it is only a distraction. Be mindful of what is, not what might be.”

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9. “Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.”

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10. “I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you’ve created has returned, to kill you!”

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11. “Everything dies. In time, even stars burn out. This is why Jedi form no attachments: all things pass. To hold on to something – or someone – beyond its time is to set your selfish desires against the Force. That is a path of misery, Anakin; the Jedi do not walk it.”

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12. “A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world – something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear – is nothing but a cheap hustle.”

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13. “Each of us is the sum of our scars.”

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14. “Reasons are for peasants.”

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15. “Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.”

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16. “Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.”

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17. “The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars.”

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18. “This is Anakin Skywalker: The most powerful Jedi of his generation. Perhaps of any generation. The fastest. The strongest. An unbeatable pilot. An unstoppable warrior. On the ground, in the air or sea or space, there is no one even close. He has not just power, not just skill, but dash: that rare, invaluable combination of boldness and grace.”

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19. “The dark is generous. Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others. The dark protects us from what we dare not know.”

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20. “It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.”

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21. “Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.”

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22. “You are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory.”

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23. “Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.”

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24. “Say what you will about the wisdom of ancient Master Yoda, or the deadly skill of grim Mace Windu, the courage of Ki-Adi-Mundi, or the subtle wiles of Shaak Ti; the greatness of all these Jedi is unquestioned, but it pales next to the legend that has grown around Kenobi and Skywalker. They stand alone.”

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25. “But even in the deepest night, there are some who dream of dawn.”

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26. “The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.”

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27. “They are closer than friends. Closer than brothers. Though Obi-Wan is sixteen standard years Anakin’s elder, they have become men together. Neither can imagine life without the other. The war has forged their two lives into one.”

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28. “Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty... Each of us is the sum of our scars.”

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29. “This is Obi-Wan Kenobi: A phenomenal pilot who doesn’t like to fly. A devastating warrior who’d rather not fight. A negotiator without peer who frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate.”

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30. “If i listen hard enough, i can hear that voice: that small quiet whisper in the back of my head that keeps on insisting “My will, or i won’t”.”

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31. “No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain.”

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32. “A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.”

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33. “Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.”

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34. “A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.”

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35. “And he knew that to strike Anakin down would burn his own heart to ash.”

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36. “What distinguishes a flower from a weed is only – and exactly – this: the choice of the gardener.”

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37. “With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.”

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38. “You’ve been off fighting the war in the Outer Rim. You don’t know what it’s been like, dealing with all the petty squabbles and special interests and greedy, grasping fools in the Senate, and Palpatine’s constant, cynical, ruthless maneuvering for power – he carves away chunks of our freedom and bandages the wounds with tiny scraps of security. And for what? Look at this planet, Obi-Wan! We have given up so much freedom – how secure do we look?”

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39. “Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.”

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40. “Everything that happens in your life – every single thing – leaves a scar. A permanent scar. You’re not supposed to get over it. To get over something – to erase the mark it left on you – erases part of who you are.”

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41. “I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you’ve grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.”

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42. “The problem with happy endings,” Tan’elKoth said, “is that nothing is ever truly over.”

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43. “This is not just the end of a republic; night is falling on civilization itself.”

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44. “In my dreams, I always do it right.”

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45. “These bronzium images serve as melancholy reminders that some Jedi have needs the Order cannot satisfy.”

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46. “Contemplation of death brought only one slight sting of regret, and more than a bit of puzzlement. Until this very moment, he had never realized he’d always expected, for no discernible reason – That when he died, Anakin would be with him.”

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47. “So this is how liberty dies,” she was saying to herself. “With cheering, and applause.”

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48. “Can’t trust a fascist – truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state.”

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49. “I knew an Ethersworn monk once, who made it a practice to believe six impossible things before breakfast; if he could manage only five, he stayed in bed.”

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50. “Mace flipped up a thumb. “You think being armed and ruthless means you can do whatever you want.” He folded his thumb and flipped up his forefinger. “You think nobody will stand up to you when they’re naked.” He folded that one again and flipped up the next. “And you think you’re going to look inside my bag.”

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