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"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated
rate."
"If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise, I have
considerable work to do."
"I learned a while ago that there's enough guilt in the world to go
around without grabbing for more. Give yourself the benefit of the
doubt."
"He's my patient."
"I have looked into the darkness, Na'Toth. You can not do that and
never be quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction
of our base at quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could
attempt an assault of that magnitude. But none of the governments here
could have done it. Which left only two possibilites: a new race, or an
old race. A very old race."
"But there may be some dangers that threaten both our peoples, not to
mention the Minbari, the Earthers, the League and everyone else around
here. Except possibly the Vorlons, I don't know what could threaten
them, really."
"What the hell kind of a security chief am I supposed to be if I can't
see something like that?" "What you are asking could be considered treason."
"Vir, do you believe in fate?"
"You don't frighten easily."
"There's an old saying: 'Do not try the patience of wizards for they
are subtle and quick to anger.'"
"I can give you something for the pain."
"I have absolute trust in your abilities, Commander."
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries
of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and
invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know
many things."
"The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make
someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go
without pain, or to say goodbye to a friend who is dying. How to be
poor, how to be rich, how to rediscover dreams the world has stolen
from you."
"I don't trust anybody. When somebody tells me we've got a message from
Ivanova, I don't believe until I get it from her point blank." "An old friend of mine once quoted me an ancient Egyptian blessing:
'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must
walk.'"
"The universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy
places, but they are right. Wherever we are, it's the right place ..
and the right time. Pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of
constantly being born."
"Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of
all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make
up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars
themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying
to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe
requires a change of perspective."
"Ever had a long talk with ambassador Delenn, Commander?"
"What else have I missed?"
"Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. The future
isn't what it used to be."
"The forces of darkness do not move openly. They work through others,
use others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered,
hid themselves away in secret places and waited. Now, the dark hand is
reaching out and recalling them from their sleep."
"You've got a plan?"
[a problem in the ambassadorial section]
"These are volatile times, Captain. Practicalities are more important
than principles if lives are to be saved."
"Well, you know how I feel about telepaths."
"And you don't trust Psi Corps?"
"It's trickier than you thought."
"Some people .. collect coins or art. I collect secrets: black
projects, conspiracies, secret organizations. They fascinate me."
"Oh, Timov, Timov. Why do you always try to draw me into your little
verbal fencing matches?" "I'm sorry. I guess I'm reading too much into it, but people seem to be
implying that .. I shouldn't get too comfortable." "The secret of our marriage's success, Londo, is our lack of
communication. You've jeopardised that success and I would know why."
"Petulant, isn't she? Oh well, breeding will tell."
"Hey, how about I call you an idiot in public and you can convict me
for revealing state secrets?"
"Are you okay? Londo, do you know where you are?"
"We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs."
"I heard a good one today. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a
lightbulb?" "No traffic, no complaints, no noise. Traders, troublemakers, and
ambassadors, all tucked snuggly in their little beds. I love this time
of night." "We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a .. bright
future, we must learn to break those chains."
"So, you are going to allow this, even over my objections?"
"I was ready. I had prepared myself. I had made my peace with the
universe, put all my affairs in order. I had the dagger in my hand! And
he has the indecency to start dying on his own! Never in my life have I
seen a worse case of timing."
"Maybe it's good news. With luck he's feeling better. All they have to
do is to prop him up for two minutes and-- I'll call you back."
"Mollari. What did he say, really?"
"G'Kar, everyone in this room knows too well that the first casualty of
war is always the truth."
"Six months ago they were hardly aware of me. Now, suddenly everyone is
my friend, everyone wants something. I wanted respect. Instead I've
turned into a wishing-well with legs."
"I don't believe that any form of sentient life is inferior to any
other." "Ambassador, I have learned the hard way that governments deal in
matters of convenience, not conscience. If they fall behind, it is up
to the rest of us to make up the difference. If we don't, who will?"
"I'm not worried about that."
"Your diagnosis, Doctor?"
"Twenty cycles I stood beside you as one of the Nine. I called many of
you friends. And now you call me outcast. You know me. You know I
believe in the task that is before us, the Great War that is coming. I
have not turned my back on you. In trying to help I have sacrificed all
that I was, and all that I am. We can no longer allow ourselves to be
separated by names and borders. Our two sides must unite .. or be
destroyed. Do not make my sacrifice a vain one. Allow me to finish what
I started. In the name of our friendship, for the future of our people,
let me remain in Babylon 5."
"And your belief that you are satisfying prophesy is a presumption of
the highest order. And yet .. it is true that you are now the perfect
liaison between us and the Earthers. You have no home with either of
us. So, please, act out your fantasy, be our go-between. Return to
Babylon 5, and stay there!"
"The first obligation of a prisoner is to escape, right?"
"A soldier's record tells a lot about a person. Not just what he's
done, but how he's done it and why. And you have an uncommon failing
for someone in your position, Captain. You are a patriot."
"He's the best there is!"
"These guys are about as subtle as a brick through a glass window."
"I don't believe anybody."
"Won't you be recognized?"
"Maybe somebody should've labeled the future: some assembly required."
"'Welcome to Babylon 5, the last best hope for a quick buck.'"
"Now, I want to talk with your witness - he is lying!"
"For someone of another species to make such an accusation, it would
require an immediate and fatal response from the accused." "Are you expected?"
"Whose side are you on?"
"I don't appreciate being called ignorant in front of others."
"I'll never forget what you once said to me: 'Never fear answers, only
fear running out of questions.'" "Since the Minbari don't lie..."
"36 Hours, sponsored by Interplanetary Expeditions -- Exploring the
past to create a better future."
"Overall I've found this to be a good working environment and a
valuable experience. I've learned a lot while I've been here."
"According to figures released by the newly formed Office of Public
Morale, President William Clark has risen to dramatic new levels of
popularity because of his administration's emphasis on addressing the
needs of earth."
"Every day I get up, and I hope nothing will happen. I'd love to be
just bored out of my skull for 24 hours, and .. I guess I keep hoping
that someday, somewhere I'll make a difference, that at the end of the
day everything we've gone through here for the past few years will mean
something."
"Roughly 150 of your years ago, the Centauri came to our world. Narn
was a green and fertile place then. We greeted them in peace and spent
the next 100 years in chains, but we never gave up hope. We formed a
resistance, learned their secrets, turned their own machines against
them, and finally drove them from our world."
"Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less advanced
one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are
resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply
because they can."
"Please. The Narn have rewritten history enough, don't you think? If
they wanted us gone, we were hardly going to force the issue, but ever
since, they have grown more and more irrational, have gone out of their
way to harm us, to seize Centauri territory. Finally, we had to take a
stand. They were the ones who declared war, remember. Not us. We want
only peace."
"You're right, Johnny. You know, there are a lot of other kids who feel
just the same way you do. They're confused and afraid, but they don't
have to be. The problem isn't that other kids don't like you, it's that
they don't understand you, but we do. You're special. You're a latent
telepath about to come into full bloom." "If you know someone who might be a telepath, or think you might be one
yourself, help them get the help they need. Call the Corps." "The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps."
"Of course it is, for the simple reason that no one else would've ever
built a place like this. Humans share one unique quality. They build
communities. If the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a
station like this, it would be used only by their own people, but
everywhere humans go, they create communities out of diverse and
sometimes hostile populations. It is a great gift and a terrible
responsibility, one that cannot be abandoned."
"What do you want?"
"Nice shoes. I'll admit my knowledge of the law is somewhat limited,
but .. I believe it's tradition if you're going to hold someone, you
should at least .. charge him .. with something."
"When a patient starts to slip away .. when he looks at you .. and his
eyes grab hold of you the way a drowning man grabs hold of anything to
keep him from sinking.. I mean, afraid .. so afraid .. and then, just
at the last, it's as if they look past you to something else, and the
look on their face, it's like nothing you can describe. And then ..
just as they look past you, the moment that they look past you, you
can't help but meet their gaze and, just for an instant, you see God
reflected in their eyes. I've seen a lot of reflected Gods today, Susan
.. and I'm wondering how we can keep believing in them when they've
stopped believing in us."
"It was terrible, like falling into a bottomless well. And cold, so
cold. And just for a second I thought I saw this .." "There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either
of our races. Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants,
vast, timeless. Taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim,
created great empires, but to all things, there is an end. Slowly, over
a million years, the First Ones went away. Some passed beyond the stars
never to return. Some simply disappeared."
"The disease only appeared once before, centuries ago on a small
island on our world noted for certain excesses. When it was struck
down, the rest of my people believed it was a punishment by the gods
for their lack of morality."
"We are the pure. If we believe, then the dark angel of Drafa will pass
over us. Hurry. Inside now, everyone inside."
"They're in pain, frightened, dying. Minbari are taught that at such a
time, the afflicted should be ministered to, comforted." "Don't look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come
together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you
again here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no
shadows fall."
"Faith manages."
"You were very funny. Everything to you was a problem to be solved, a
test to be passed. But you know, Stephen, sometimes the test is not to
find the answer. It's to see how you react when you realize there is no
answer."
"Every generation of Centauri mourns for the golden days when their
power was like unto the gods. It's counterproductive. I mean, why make
history if you fail to learn by it?" "Commander, everything in order?"
"I thought you said the records were all confiscated?"
"Knowledge is a basic tool of politics. Mine is considerable."
"Disgrace is preferable to death."
"You know, while this incessant curiosity may seem necessary to
you, Minbari respect the privacy of others by not prying into their
affairs. To express undue curiosity--" "I have been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all
you had to do was to admit you were wrong and I was right and
everything would've been fine."
"Why is it, every time you finally get things calmed down and
everything is going great, life decides to .. kick you in the butt."
"Garibaldi believes her."
"Only at night .. alone .. would I open that small door in my mind
where I kept the memory of you and listen to your voice, listen to you
sing me to sleep. I hope I can come back again .. but I don't know.
Until then .. Kosh .. I want to see you again .. just one more time
before I go."
"Mass drivers! They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!"
"I know Delenn has told you about the coming darkness. And, lately,
I've learned about your role in shall we say .. a conspiracy of light
aimed at your own government."
"It might be helpful for you to know that you are not alone. And that
in the long, twilight struggle, which lies ahead of us, there is the
possibility of hope."
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the
force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than
the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and
armies can not stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will
teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be
free."
"If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, the work becomes
corrupted, impure, and ultimately self-destructive. Ambassador Kosh
wishes confirmation that the right people are in the right place at the
right time."
"Nothing changes. Corruption, immorality, chaos."
"The truth? You are not ready for the truth. The facts? If that's the
only way to get to my work. Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth. The
Vorlons have been everywhere. The Vorlons ARE."
"I was found by the Vorlons, taken, transported, and brought into
their service. They told me everything about everything and the scales
fell off my eyes and they were opened to universe of majesty and terror
that you could never imagine. They call upon me when I'm needed, and
preserve me when I'm not. And they have called upon me now for this
interrogation."
"Mr. Garibaldi. I have been on this station long enough to know that
you don't ask leading questions unless you already know the answers.
So, why don't we just pretend I've lied about it, you've caught me in
your web of ineluctable logic and cut to the point."
"We all have a destiny."
"What about the people you work with, the people you call friends? Are
you willing to sacrifice them? What about your family, what about your
God, what about truth, what about blood, what about right, what about
wrong, what about your future, what about faith, what about sin, what
about hell, what about death, what about life?"
"Stop! Your quarrel is with me. You were sent to investigate me. Let
him go. If you want to take someone, take me." "Good luck to you in your holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May your
choices have better results than mine."
"Sometimes, I get so close and .. it seems I am shut off from the
important things." "I apologize. I'm .. sorry. I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves
against an unwarranted attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid
enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians,
including your own people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did
before I blew them all straight to hell. .. As with everything else,
it's the thought that counts."
"Millions of years the Vorlons have visited other worlds. Guided them
and.." I'm afraid we don't have a Season Three... this is as far as we got. Sorry, man. |