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    "It was the Dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, ten years after the
Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal:
to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could
work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away
from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers. Humans
and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning
metal...all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our
last, best hope for peace.
    This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is
2258. The name of the place...is Babylon 5."
    -- Commander Jeffrey Sinclair's opening narrative, Season One
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"Commander, there's a problem."
    -- Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"My brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a Centauri."
    -- Garibaldi (to Londo), "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"...then you'll excuse me, I'm in the middle of fifteen things - all
 of them annoying."
    -- Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"My father always told me: The best way to understand someone is to fight
 him, make him angry. That's when you see the real person."
    -- Sinclair, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"So, who are you going to vote for?"
'I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. I do not like Santiago. I've
    always thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He
    has no chin and his vice-president has several. This, to me,
    is not a good combination.'
    -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"We'll strike back and we'll strike back hard!"
    -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?"
    -- G'Kar (to Londo), "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"We should have wiped out your kind when we had the chance."
'What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?'
    -- Londo and G'Kar, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"Your time has come and gone. It's our turn now! One night you'll wake up
 and find our teeth at your throat."
    -- G'Kar (to Londo), "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"20 years from now, one of us will be older and wiser. Or one of us will be
 dead. Whose to say? Me...I need another drink."
    -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"On the issue of galactic peace, I am long past innocence and fast
 approaching apathy. It's all a game - a paper fantasy of names and borders."
    -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass."
'Who? The Narn or the Centauri?'
"Yes."
    -- Kosh and Sinclair, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"Mr. Garibaldi, you're sitting at my station, using my equipment. Is there
 a reason for this or to save time, should I just go ahead and snap your
 hands off at the wrist?"
    -- Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"The Council can go to hell. The emergency session can go to hell. And
 you, you can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you to feel left out!"
    -- Londo (to Vir), "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"We are a race of lunatics and cowards."
    -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"Well, unlike me, the Lieutenant Commander takes a while to warm up to
 people, especially when she's working."
    -- Garibaldi (re: Ivanova), "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have cleansed the
    Universe of the Centauri and carved their bones into little flutes for
    Narn children. It is a dream I have."
'Be careful, Ambassador. Not every dream I've heard lately end well for you.'
    -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"The sneak attack is the first resort of a coward."
    -- Sinclair, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"The Earth Alliance can't go around being the galaxy's policemen."
    -- Sinclair and The Senator, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"Blood calls out for blood."
    -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"Mr. Garibaldi. Just now, would you really have killed *me*?"
'Yes. Yes, I would have, but I'm just as glad I didn't have to. The
    paperwork's a pain in the butt.'
    -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"When they discover what you are, they give you three choices. You can
    either join the Psi Corps or go to prison or agree to take certain
    drugs for the rest of your life. Drugs that inhibit your telepathic
    abilities."
'That's the law. Unregistered telepaths have to be controlled in order to
    ensure the privacy of others.'
    -- Ivanova and Talia Winters, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"I don't feel like a victim."
'No. And so far, I cannot tell if that is good...or bad.'
    -- Talia Winters and Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"Perhaps tomorrow we can start out on better terms."
'I very much doubt it.'
    -- Talia Winters and Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"Had the silly thing in reverse."
    -- Duck Dodgers, "Midnight on the Firing Line"
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"This is not a clear and present danger? I *must* read the rulebook again."
    -- Ivanova, "Soul Hunter"
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"Even as children, every Minbari is told to be careful or the Soul Hunter
 will come in the might and steal their souls. They are immortal. Noone
 knows who they are or where they come from. But they can sense death.
 They are drawn to death like insects drawn to the light."
    -- Delenn (re: soul hunters), "Soul Hunter"
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"Send it away, while you still can."
    -- Delenn (re: Soul Hunter), "Soul Hunter"
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"We are not thieves. We are preservers."
'Thought that might get your attention.'
"We act only for the greater good."
    -- Soul Hunter #1 and Sinclair, "Soul Hunter"
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"Minbari: pale, bloodless. Look in their eyes and see nothing but mirrors,
 infinities of reflection."
    -- Soul Hunter #1, "Soul Hunter"
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"We are drawn to the moment...the moment of surrender. The instant of loss.
 Between despair and ecstasy. When the flesh fails and all the remains behind.
 The soul we save. Not all. Only the special ones. Leaders. Thinkers. Poets.
 Dreamers. Blessed lunatics."
    -- Soul Hunter #1, "Soul Hunter"
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"Minbari: jealous, selfish, private. We have saved only a few. Very rare.
 Rarest of all: their leader, Dukaht. Dying: your fault. Your war. The
 pinnacle of Minbari evolution. We came - I, others. They made a wall
 of bodies to stop us. He died and his dreams, his ideas...all that he
 was, all that he could ever be...gone, wasted. Jealous. Gone. Gone."
    -- Soul Hunter #1, "Soul Hunter"
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"It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human life span is almost a hundred
    years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. Wouldn't
    be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just
    start to get it right and then...it's over."
'Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human.
    We'd still make the same mistakes.'
    -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Soul Hunter"
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"You're a pessimist."
'I am *Russian*, Doctor. We understand these things."
    -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Soul Hunter"
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"What is one of the great leaders of the Minbari doing here playing
 ambassador?"
    -- Soul Hunter #1 (to Delenn), "Soul Hunter"
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"I really hate it when you get heroic. Cuts into my business. Man's gotta
 earn a living, you know?"
    -- Garibaldi (to Sinclair), "Soul Hunter"
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"You would plan such a thing? You would *do* such a thing? Incredible."
    -- Soul Hunter #1 (to Delenn), "Soul Hunter"
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"Why do you fight for her? Don't you understand? She is Satai! She is Satai!
 I have seen her soul. They're using you. They're using you!'
    -- Soul Hunter #1 (to Sinclair), "Soul Hunter"
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"We were right about you."
    -- Delenn (to Sinclair), "Soul Hunter"
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"Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?"
'On that, Mollari, we can at least agree.'
    -- Londo and G'Kar, "Born to the Purple"
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"You know, sometimes I almost feel sorry for G'Kar."
    -- Londo, "Born to the Purple"
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"And after spending a day dealing with Ambassador G'Kar, I long to sink
 my teeth into something..."
    -- Londo, "Born to the Purple"
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"Lousy Dodgers."
    -- Garibaldi, "Born to the Purple"
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"I haven't sensed so many lies since I worked for the political bureau."
    -- Talia (re: G'Kar and Londo), "Born to the Purple"
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"My brain feels like its been sucked out through my ear."
    -- Londo, "Born to the Purple"
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"Don't give away the homeworld."
    -- Londo (to Vir), "Born to the Purple"
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"Just don't give away the homeworld."
    -- G'Kar (to Ko'Dath), "Born to the Purple"
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"Keep them talking. I'm going to find Londo and bring him here."
'What if he refuses?'
"Then I hurt him."
    -- Sinclair and Talia Winters, "Born to the Purple"
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"I'll even seal it with a kiss."
'That should make G'Kar's day.'
    -- Londo and Sinclair, "Born to the Purple"
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"The gratitude of the Narn is well known throughout the galaxy."
    -- G'Kar, "Born to the Purple"
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"I never knew you could be so devious, Commander."
'Coming from you, Ambassador, that's a real compliment.'
    -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "Born to the Purple"
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"Savor the mystery, Stephen. We don't get nearly enough of them."
    -- Vance Hendricks (to Dr. Franklin), "Infection"
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"Nothing in his personnel jacket to suggest a heart condition."
'Yes, and exactly which medical school did you attend, Mr. Garibaldi?'
    -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Infection"
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"This is a blueprint for living machines. The Vorlons have one. Some
 people even say the Minbari have them. We haven't seen enough of them
 up close to get any idea of how they work."
    -- Vance Hendricks, "Infection"
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"The last time I gave an interview, they told me to just relax and say what
 I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast, I got transferred to an
 outpost so far off the starmap, you couldn't find it with a hunting dog
 and a Ouiji board."
    -- Sinclair, "Infection"
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"What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the
 Rim and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here.
    -- Garibaldi (to Sinclair), "Infection"
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"Stephen? Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd
    like to have a word with you about the common cold."
'Tell them to make an appointment.'
    -- Vance Hendricks and Dr. Franklin, "Infection"
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"In the last five years, I've seen things off-world you can't even imagine.
 I've stood in the Abendi desert and watched all seven moons go into
 eclipse. I've walked in vaults that have been sealed longer than
 there's been a human race, breathing air that's five million years old.
 You call that a shortcut, if you will, but I've lived. By God, Stephen,
 I have *lived*."
    -- Vance Hendricks, "Infection"
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"Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain."
    -- Susan Ivanova (to ISN reporter Mary Ann Cramer), "Infection"
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"Win, lose or draw, this thing's going to know it was in a fight."
    -- Garibaldi, "Infection"
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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
    -- Ivanova (quoting Santiana), "Infection"
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"Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a
    bad idea and take care of our own problems at home?"
'No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten
    different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics
    and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every
    scientist on the planet agrees on: Whether it happens in a hundred
    years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will
    grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll
    take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy
    Holly and Aristophenes...and all of this...all of this was for nothing
    unless we go to the stars.'
    -- Mary Ann Cramer interviewing Sinclair, "Infection"
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"I don't care if you're the Easter bunny. You're not bringing this
 [knife] on the station."
    -- Garibaldi to an alien pilgrim, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"I'm thinking of thinking of calling her right after my afternoon nap.
 I'm thinking of thinking of sending her flowers right after Bonnie gets back.
 So many fishes left in the sea.
 So many fishies, but noone for meeeee...
 I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love soon after supper is done."
    -- G'Kar's song, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Do you know what the last Xon said just before he died?"
[Clutches heart]
"AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
    -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Oh, come on, Commander! Loosen up!"
    -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"In a world where every day is a struggle for survival, you need all the
 gods you can get."
    -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!"
    -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"He has become one with his inner self!"
'He passed out.'
"That too."
    -- Vir and Garibaldi (re: Londo), "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"I don't mean to alarm you, but your pants are talking to you."
'I know. I was just, uh...'
"Yes, you're a very busy man. Well, I'll let you and your pants get back
    to business and I'll get back to mine."
    -- Catherine Sakai and Sinclair, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"What would you say if I told you that Councilor Du'Rog had hired someone
    to kill me? Someone close to me?"
'Ambassador, with all due respect, if it *were* me, you wouldn't be here
    for us to have this conversation.'
    -- G'Kar and Na'Toth, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Ambassador, it is not my place to speculate on how *anything* gets into
 your bed."
    -- Na'Toth (to G'Kar), "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"I fight my own battles!"
    -- G'Kar, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Earthers have a phrase: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
 I think they stole it from us."
    -- G'Kar, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"I cannot have an aide who will not look up. You will be forever walking
 into things."
    -- Delenn (to Lennier), "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Understanding is not required, only obedience."
    -- Lennier (to Delenn), "The Parliament of Dreams"
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    "Will you follow me into fire, into storm, into darkness, into death?
And the Nine said yes. Then do this in testimony to the one who will
follow, who will bring death couched in the promise of new life and
renewal disguised as defeat.
    From birth through death and renewal, you must put aside old things,
old fears, old lives. This is your death, the death of flesh, the death
of pain, the death of yesterday. Taste of it and be not afraid for I am
with you to the end of time. Taste of it.
    And so it begins."
    -- Delenn, "Parliament of Dreams"
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"And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart: Hot pink
 is *definitely* your color."
    -- Garibaldi (to G'Kar), "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Don't touch me unless you mean it!"
    -- Catherine Sakai (to Sinclair), "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"That hurt."
'Ambassador, it was the only way to disable the pain-givers. I had to hit
    them as hard as possible, as often as possible and still make it appear
    as though that I were beating you into another incarnation.'
"And you didn't enjoy it in the least."
'I didn't say that.'
    -- G'Kar and Na'Toth, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will know pain..."
'...and you will know fear...'
"...and then you will die. Have a pleasant flight."
    -- G'Kar and Na'Toth (to Tu'Pari), "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Oh, it's a rebirth ceremony, all right. It also doubles as a marriage
    ceremony. Depending on how seriously anyone took it, somebody got
    married the other day."
'Maybe that's why G'Kar was smiling. Funny. I didn't think Londo was
    his type.'
    -- Sakai and Sinclair, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"See you next Wednesday."
    -- Sinclair, "The Parliament of Dreams"
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"Get out of my head."
    -- Sinclair (to Bester), "Mind War"
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"There are rules and there are *rules*, Commander."
    -- Psi Cop Kelsey (to Sinclair), "Mind War"
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"Since we bear a greater responsibility, we're afforded greater latitude,
 in the interests of efficiency."
    -- Psi Cop Bester, "Mind War"
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"And Psi Cops, what are you rated?"
'P12. Someone has to keep an eye on the rest.'
"Yes, but who watches the watchmen?"
    -- Ivanova and Psi Cop Kelsey, "Mind War"
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"Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place:
 Noone here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not
 *Sinclair*...and not me."
    -- G'Kar (to Sakai), "Mind War"
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"Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try...
 anytime...anywhere."
    -- Psi Cop Bester, "Mind War"
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"Think about it. You want to assassinate someone, so you bring in a
 telekinetic. He reaches into the person's throat and then gently, quietly
 with a thought, he pinches the carotid artery shut. The blood stops, the
 brain starves, the target dies. And then you just let go. Murder without a
 trace. No fingerprints. No poisons."
    -- Ironheart, "Mind War"
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"We had our orders."
'Mister, I don't care if you had a personal message from God complete with
    stone tablets. You lied to me.'
    -- Bester and Sinclair, "Mind War"
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"Good ol' Psi Corps  You guys never cease to amaze me! All the moral fiber
 of Jack the Ripper... What do you do in your spare time? Juggle babies
 over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk!"
    -- Ivanova (to the Psi Cops), "Mind War"
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"You're not helping the situation."
'Lady, you *are* the situation.'
    -- Psi Cop Kelsey and Ivanova, "Mind War"
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"We all thought Psi Corps was controlled by the government, but that's
 changing. The Corps is starting to pull the strings behind the scenes.
 They're more powerful than you can begin to imagine. Telepaths make the
 ultimate blackmailers."
    -- Ironheart, "Mind War"
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"Do you know what its like when telepaths make love, Commander? You drop
 every defense and its all mirrors reflecting each other's feelings. Deeper
 and deeper until somewhere along the line, your souls mix and its a feeling
 so profound it makes you hurt. It's the only moment in a telepath's life
 you no longer hear the voices."
        -- Talia Winters, "Mind War"
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"The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, Commander: control.  Control over
  telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought itself."
    -- Jason Ironheart (to Sinclair), "Mind War"
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"You cannot harm me. You cannot harm one who has dreamed a dream like mine."
    -- Ironheart, "Mind War"
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"That's a lie."
'Yes, it is.  What's your point?'
    -- Bester and Sinclair, "Mind War"
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"Be seeing you, Commander."
    -- Bester, "Mind War"
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"Narns, Humans, Centauri...we all do what we do for the same reason:
 because it seems like a good idea at the time."
    -- G'Kar (to Sakai), "Mind War"
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"There are things in the Universe billions of years older than either of
 our races. They are vast, timeless and if they are aware of us at all, it
 is as little more than ants and we have as much chance of communicating
 with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried and we've learned
 that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on."
    -- G'Kar, "Mind War"
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"They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured to know that
 there are still wonders in the Universe, that we have not yet explained
 everything."
    -- G'Kar, "Mind War"
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"Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and they must
 walk there alone."
    -- G'Kar, "Mind War"
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"There was a time, Mr. Garibaldi, when one could walk through Green Sector
 without need of escort."
    -- Delenn, "The War Prayer"
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"I assure you, we're doing everything we can to correct that, Ambassador."
'Then you are required to do better, Commander. *Much* better.'
    -- Sinclair and Delenn, "The War Prayer"
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"You're a vicious man."
'I'm Head of Security.  It's in the job description.'
    -- Ivanova and Garibaldi, "The War Prayer"
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"Love?  What does love have to do with marriage?!?"
    -- Londo (to Kiron and Aria), "The War Prayer"
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"We take no interest in the affairs of others."
    -- Kosh, "The War Prayer"
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"That's quite a viewer. I've never seen anything quite like it before.
    What is it?"
'Efficient.'
    -- Sinclair and Kosh, "The War Prayer"
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"The Vorlons are very secretive. And they don't want anyone to know what
 they look like, what they breathe, or how their biology works. I mean,
 who knows how much of that suit is really necessary and how much is just
 camouflage to keep us from seeing what's really inside."
    -- Ivanova, "The War Prayer"
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"Love? Pah! Overrated. Here, look. These are my three wives: Pestilence,
 Famine and Death. Do you think I married them for their personalities?
 Their personalities could shatter entire planets! Arranged marriages,
 every one, but they worked out. They inspired me. Knowing that they were
 waiting at home for me is what keeps me here - 75 lights years away."
    -- Londo (to Vir), "The War Prayer"
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"So much for Babylon 5's highly vaunted justice."
    -- G'Kar, "The War Prayer"
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"I could strangle that damn G'Kar."
    -- Sinclair, "The War Prayer"
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"I would expect such logic from a poet."
    -- Londo (to Shaal Mayan), "The War Prayer"
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"What can a Minbari know about Centauri feeling?"
'Ambassador, I have traveled far and seen much.  And what I have seen
    tells me that all sentient beings are best defined by their capacity
    and need for love.'
"And she will learn to live without it!"
'As you did?'
    -- Londo and Shaal Mayan, "The War Prayer"
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"My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance."
    -- Londo, "The War Prayer"
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"We won because the damn Minbari *let* us win."
    -- Sinclair, "The War Prayer"
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"Human ways are often unfathomable, but in time, one learns to live
    with them."
'If one has an exceedingly strong constitution.'
    -- Delenn (to Mayan) and G'Kar, "The War Prayer"
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"Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be
 blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they
 don't have any other choice."
    -- Sinclair, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Stay in formation. Hold the Line. Noone gets through - no matter what."
    -- Sinclair (on the Line), "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Maybe you're asleep. Maybe you're insane. Maybe you're dead. Maybe you're
 in Hell! Not that it matters much, Commander Sinclair, because wherever
 you are, wherever you go, you're mine."
    -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Curious. We have the memories of your entire life to play around with, but
 your thoughts are rooted here in this station. It means a lot to you,
 doesn't it?"
    -- Knight Two (to Sinclair), "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"My ship was damaged. I blacked out."
'So you testified. Just one problem: I don't believe you...and I'm not
 the only one."
    -- Sinclair and Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Mister Garibaldi, there're days I'm very glad I don't have to think
 like you do."
    -- Ivanova, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Smart money said you'd make admiral one day. So what happened, *Commander*?
 Where did you fall off the merry-go-round?"
    -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"The war was over! The Minbari had surrendered on the eve of their victory.
 They gave up, just like that. And you expect us to believe that you slept
 through the whole thing? Your ship was off the screen for twenty-four
 hours! You didn't just black out. Your ship disappeared."
    -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Nobody wants to die, especially not out there in the cold of space, so you
 surrendered. They took you aboard their ship, fixed you some milk and
 cookies and asked you to work for them, be their eyes, their ears, their
 voice. You agreed - you and god knows how many other people."
    -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"When I looked at those ships, I...I didn't just see my death. I saw the
 death of the whole damn human race."
    -- Sinclair, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Not like this. Not like this! If I'm going out, I'm taking you bastards
 with me!"
    -- Sinclair (on the Line), "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"There's something in my head. It says maybe you're still inside. Maybe
 we're both still inside."
    -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"He must never know what happened. If he should find out, he must
 be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?"
    -- Grey Council #1 (re: Sinclair), "And the Sky Full of Stars"
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"Understanding is a three-edged sword."
    -- Kosh, "Deathwalker"
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"I will take it from her when I eat her flesh!"
    -- Na'Toth (re: Jha'dur), "Deathwalker"
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"Commander! Commander, is it true?"
'Is what true?'
"They say you have Deathwalker in custody."
'You should know better than to listen to rumors, Ambassador.'
    -- Londo and Sinclair, "Deathwalker"
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"You know the way of command. Yes, the Wind Swords are right to fear you."
    -- Jha'dur (to Sinclair), "Deathwalker"
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"They speak of you often, Sinclair. They say you have a hole in your mind."
    -- Jha'dur (re: the Wind Swords), "Deathwalker"
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"Then the willows must scuttle carefully."
'Does Saturn have rings?
    -- Kosh and Abbut, "Deathwalker"
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"Ah. You seek meaning."
'Yes.'
"Then listen to the music, not the song."
    -- Kosh and Talia, "Deathwalker"
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"Ah. Rest is good...and so is a nice lean pastrami with just a little
 mustard and an Antarean pickle!"
    -- Abbut, "Deathwalker"
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"We are not through with the Centauri yet."
    -- G'Kar (to Jha'dur), "Deathwalker"
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"Justice or immortality. An intriguing choice."
    -- Ivanova, "Deathwalker"
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"Maybe she's got a conscience."
'Unlikely. Tyrants seldom show remorse for their brutalities.'
    -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Deathwalker"
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"What the hell are you doing, Jeff?"
'Following orders.'
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Deathwalker"
%%
"The Wind Swords said you were sentimental...a fatal flaw in a warrior."
    -- Jha'dur (to Sinclair), "Deathwalker"
%%
"What is need compared to the path."
    -- Kosh (to Talia Winters), "Deathwalker"
%%
"Like all secrets long kept, we cannot bear the shame of admitting it now."
    -- Lennier (re: hiding Deathwalker), "Deathwalker"
%%
"Well, I've managed to get the ship captains engaged in a debate over who
 has the best claim to Jha'dur. The winner will be the first to attack."
    -- Ivanova, "Deathwalker"
%%
"A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles."
    -- Kosh, "Deathwalker"
%%
"What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?"
'Reflection, surprise, terror...for the future.'
    -- Talia (re: Abbut) and Kosh, "Deathwalker"
%%
"Well. All's well that end's well, huh?"
    -- Londo Mollari, "Deathwalker"
%%
"You are not ready for immortality."
    -- Ambassador Kosh, "Deathwalker"
%%
"You think it'll always be like this, Michael? Little powers at the mercy
    of bigger powers, politics before morality, expediency before justice?"
'Seems to work for everybody...except you. Maybe that's why I like you.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Deathwalker"
%%
"I think I may be having a problem with Ambassador Kosh."
    -- Talia Winters' understatement, "Deathwalker"
%%
"They say God works in mysterious ways."
'Maybe so, but he's a con man compared to the Vorlon.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Deathwalker"
%%
"Noone knows what is written in the stream until the water surrounds him."
    -- M'ola, "Believers"
%%
"Is Garibaldi available?"
'I suppose...'
"What?"
'Nothing. I certainly have plenty of things to occupy myself here. Yes,
    sir. I think I'll just walk to and fro for awhile. Maybe over to my
    console. After that, maybe I'll try pacing fro and to, just for the
    kick of it. Oh, then there's the view, of course. Granted, it's not
    quite the same as if you're outside...for someone that's got over a
    hundred hours of combat flying experience."
"If you'd rather..."
'No no no, that's okay. That's fine. Don't worry about me. I'm just going
    to sit here and knit something. Maybe a nice sweater...some socks...
    Does the term "stir crazy" ring a bell, Commander?'
"I have an idea, Lieutenant Commander. Why don't *you* take out the
    fighter wing and escort the ASIMOV back to base?"
'Well, if you insist, sir.'
    -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Believers"
%%
"What kind of a God do you worship?"
    -- Dr. Hernandez, "Believers"
%%
"We are the Children of Time. We can not break our covenant any more
 than you could cease to be the descendant of egg-sucking mammaloids."
    -- Tharg (to Dr. Franklin), "Believers"
%%
"Sometimes you have to heal the family before you can heal the patient."
    -- Dr. Franklin, "Believers"
%%
"In my opinion, the presence of pfingle eggs aboard this installation might
    present a serious hazard."
'Thanks, I owe you.'
"Import another steak."
'I don't owe you *that* much.'
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Believers"
%%
"There are more important things in life than the next breath."
    -- Tharg, "Believers"
%%
"What were you thinking when you petitioned us?"
'We thought your dislike of the Earthers would be enough.'
"Enough for us. Not for you. We do not casually entangle ourselves in
    the affairs of other species."
    -- G'Kar and Tharg, "Believers"
%%
"Unfortunately, we *are* on a budget here."
    -- Londo, "Believers"
%%
"Just how much justice can you afford?"
    -- Londo, "Believers"
%%
"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
    -- Kosh, "Believers"
%%
"We Minbari have our own relationship with the larger domains of the
 Universe. Matters of the soul are very private, very personal to us.
 We have suffered the interference of others in this area and are thus
 ourselves forbidden to intervene in matters such as this."
    -- Delenn, "Believers"
%%
"Operating on Kosh was the camel's nose in the tent. Operating on Shon
 will be the rest of the camel."
    -- Sinclair, "Believers"
%%
"Who asked you to play God?"
'Every damn patient who comes through that door, that's who! People come to
    doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better
    or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when
    their prayers aren't enough. Well, if I have to take the responsibility,
    then I claim the authority too.'
    -- Sinclair and Dr. Franklin, "Believers"
%%
"I'm waiting...for an apology."
'You'd better check the temperature in Hell first.'
    -- Dr. Franklin and Sinclair, "Believers"
%%
"Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything."
    -- Sinclair, "Believers"
%%
"I'm trying to tell you that what makes us human is that we care and
    because we care, we never stop trying."
'No, what makes us human is that we have so many different ways to hurt.'
    -- Sinclair and Franklin, "Believers"
%%
"What, does something about this surprise you, Mr. Garibaldi?"
'*Nothing* the government does surprises me.'
"That's a very Russian attitude. I commend you."
    -- Ivanova and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"Then you're ruling out sabotage."
'I *never* rule out sabotage.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"Commander Sinclair, have you seen the proposed seating chart for your
    President's banquet?"
'Not now, Ambassador.'
"But the entire Narn delegation has been seated next to the Vrii! An
    intolerable situation. Have you ever seen them eat? Oh! That's
    horror for you."
    -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "Survivors"
%%
"Are you nuts?"
    -- Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"Oh, give me a break, will you?"
    -- Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"Don't do this, Jeff."
    -- Garibaldi (re: the suspension), "Survivors"
%%
"Lieutenant Commander Ivanova, escort Major Kemmer off the Observation Dome."
'With pleasure.' (takes Kemmer's arm) 'You are going to resist, I hope.'
    -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Survivors"
%%
"Station One, commence Level 6 maintenance check on all off-station
    communications channels."
'Lieutenant Commander, that will tie up communications for hours.'
"Yes, I believe it will."
    -- Ivanova and Tech #1, "Survivors"
%%
"You're out of uniform. Very dapper."
    -- Londo (to Garibaldi), "Survivors"
%%
"Mr. Garibaldi, do you really think I would do such a thing to you, my
    good and dear friend?"
'In a minute.'
"You're right, but I didn't..."
    -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"I'm a Lieutenant Commander in Earth Force, Major. I do not take demands.
    If you have a request, I'll consider it."
'Very well then, I *request* that you open a channel to Earth Dome.'
"Request denied. Have a nice day."
    -- Ivanova and Kemmer, "Survivors"
%%
"Who would have thought it? *You* borrowing money from *me*. Luckily,
    Elaros has smiled on me recently."
'Elaros?'
"Goddess of luck, patron of gamblers. She and I have had a long and
    rather dubious relationship."
    -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"You're all right, Londo."
    -- Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"Oh, my people watch him, his people watch me. We *all* watch one
 another here, Mr. Garibaldi."
    -- G'Kar (re: Londo), "Survivors"
%%
"I didn't know you cared."
'Personally, I don't.'
    -- Garibaldi and G'Kar, "Survivors"
%%
"What would you say if I told you that a ship stands ready to spirit you
    off to Narn space?"
'I'd say...why?'
    -- Garibaldi and G'Kar, "Survivors"
%%
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements:
 energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
    -- G'Kar, "Survivors"
%%
"You are police."
'Not any more. I'm a fugitive. Don't tell me you haven't heard?'
"Have heard. You are *still* police."
    -- N'Grath and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"Michael, you can't do it alone."
'If I have to, I'll die trying.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"...and then she said to me, 'If I could do that, I wouldn't need an
 encounter suit.'"
    -- Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"Drunk again, Uncle Mike?"
    -- Lianna Kemmer, "Survivors"
%%
"Welcome to Babylon 5, Mr. President. You're cleared for immediate
 docking."
    -- Sinclair, "Survivors"
%%
"How you feeling?"
'Like I just made love to a meteor shower.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"You're more trouble than a toilet full of snakes, but I couldn't run
    this station without you."
'Commander, I sense a huge pay raise coming my way.'
[laughs] "Dream on."
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors"
%%
"This is going to play havoc with our schedule."
    -- Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"If there is anything I can do to be of assistance, you will let me know,
    yes?"
'No.'
    -- Londo and G'Kar, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Why does the Universe hate me?"
    -- G'Kar, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Political realities sometimes take precedence over good intentions."
    -- Senator Hidoshi, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Commander, we've got a problem."
'Surprise, surprise.'
    -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Things are changing on Earth and not all for the best."
    -- Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"50,000 commercial credits, in cash, in advance."
'That's an outrage!'
"Of course, it's an outrage. The question is, how important is your
    religious ceremony to you?"
    -- Londo and G'Kar, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"You're not a follower of G'Quan, are you, Na'Toth?"
'My father was a disciple of G'Lon. My mother didn't believe in much of
    anything.'
"And what do you believe in?"
'Myself, Ambassador.'
    -- G'Kar and Na'Toth, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Chance favors the warrior."
    -- Na'Toth, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"One thing hasn't changed: workers always get shafted."
    -- Eduardo Delvientos, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"We have a right to defend ourselves, Neeoma."
'But not with violence.'
"Begging your pardon, Commander, but if someone pushed you, wouldn't you
    push back?"
    -- Eduardo Delvientos and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"The Narns. Bleah. They're a barbaric people. They're all pagans,
 still worshipping their sun."
    -- Londo, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Would you at least consider it?"
'No.'
    -- Sinclair and Londo, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"So, what did I miss?"
    -- Garibaldi, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"What you're asking can only end in violence."
'I know that and I feel that's exactly what some people are hoping for.'
    -- Sinclair and Senator Hidoshi, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure where they'll
 point it. Your mistake."
    -- Sinclair (to Orin Zento), "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Gentlemen, I've been up almost two days straight with no sleep. This
    makes me a very cranky man."
'Yes, we've noticed. Have you considered meditation?'
    -- Sinclair and Londo, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I gave you credit for."
'There are a couple of Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with you.'
    -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"I'm glad they see it my way."
'They do not, but public opinion is on your side.'
"I see."
    -- Sinclair and Senator Hidoshi, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Orin Zento has powerful friends. By embarrassing him, you embarrassed
    them. Today, you have made new enemies. If I were you, Commander, I
    would watch things very carefully. You are not the most popular person
    in government circles right now."
'So what else is new?'
    -- Senator Hidoshi and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary"
%%
"Why does my mouth always taste like old carpet in the morning?"
'Unknown. Checking medical logs.'
    -- Ivanova and her wake-up computer, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"Sleeping is not the problem. Waking up - that is a problem."
    -- Ivanova, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside."
'But in space, it's always dark.'
"I know. I know."
    -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"I've been out of circulation. Spent the last few years doing some
    exploration out on the Rim."
'Find anything interesting?'
"Yes."
    -- Morden and Customs Guard, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"I would very much like to know how you got your hands on this."
'No, you wouldn't.'
    -- Londo and Reno, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"Now look what you've made me do!"
    -- Londo and G'Kar (to each other), "Signs and Portents"
%%
"What do you want?"
    -- Morden (to various ambassadors), "Signs and Portents"
%%
"The Centauri stripped my world. I want justice."
'But *what* do you want?'
"To suck the marrow from their bones and grind their skulls to powder."
'What do you want?'
"To tear down their cities, blacken *their* sky, sow *their* ground
    with salt. To completely, utterly, erase them."
'And then what?'
"Well...I don't know. As long as my homeworld's safety is guaranteed,
    I don't know that it matters."
    -- G'Kar and Morden, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"I see death, destruction, fire. Babylon will fall - this place will
 be destroyed."
    -- Lady Ladira, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"They're here."
    -- Delenn (re: the Shadows), "Signs and Portents"
%%
"We must all make our sacrifices."
    -- Londo, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"Never a transport tube when you need one."
    -- Londo, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"You are a lunatic. Go away. Pester someone else."
    -- Londo (to Morden), "Signs and Portents"
%%
"I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want
 to see the Centauri stretch forth their hand again and command the
 stars. I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power. I want to
 stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid
 to...to look back or to look forward. I want us to be what we used to
 be. I want...I want it all back the way that it was!"
    -- What Londo wants, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"The Shadows have come for Lord Kiro. The Shadows have come for us all!"
    -- Lady Ladira, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"Leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. *NOW*"
    -- Kosh (to Morden), "Signs and Portents"
%%
"Nuts."
    -- Ivanova, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"A gift, from friends you don't know you have."
    -- Morden (presenting the Eye to Londo), "Signs and Portents"
%%
"How can I ever find you to thank you?"
'We will find you, Ambassador. We will find you.'
    -- Londo and Morden (disembodied voice), "Signs and Portents"
%%
"Look, Jeff. You probably know you weren't first in line to run this place."
'I suspected as much. I was surprised when they called me. How far down
    the list was I?'
"Pretty far."
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"The future is always changing. We create the future with our words,
 our deeds, and with our beliefs."
    -- Lady Ladira, "Signs and Portents"
%%
"One of these days, Garibaldi, you'll learn to watch your back."
    -- Walker Smith (to Garibaldi), "TKO"
%%
"I heard some stuff about you too, Garibaldi."
'You believe it?'
"Hell, yeah!"
    -- Walker Smith and Garibaldi, "TKO"
%%
"So, how are things back home?"
'They change; they stay the same. Russia is Russia. Your father used to
    say, "If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world's fruit
    basket."'
    -- Ivanova and Rabbi Koslov, "TKO"
%%
"He said humanity had no business in space until we could learn to live in
 peace on Earth."
    -- Ivanova (re: Andrei Ivanova), "TKO"
%%
"You should *not* have done that."
'I'm a rabbi. When I see a Jew denying one of our most basic traditions,
    I meddle.'
    -- Susan Ivanova and Rabbi Koslov, "TKO"
%%
"You know, you're demented."
    -- Garibaldi, "TKO"
%%
"Relax, E.T. I'm looking for the Muta-Do."
    -- Walker Smith, "TKO"
%%
"Who the hell are you?"
    -- Walker Smith, "TKO"
%%
"You intrude upon our worlds, make mockery of our customs, meddle in
 matters you do not understand, but humans have no place in the Mutari.
 It is ours and we will not let you dishonor it. Not now. Not ever."
    -- Migo, "TKO"
%%
"And now that he has left for good, you cannot forgive him?"
'No, I can't.'
"Then the tragedy is greater than I thought. Without forgiveness you
    cannot mourn and without mourning you can never let go of the pain."
    -- Rabbi Koslov and Susan Ivanova, "TKO"
%%
"You can not run away from your own heart, Susan, not even in space."
    -- Rabbi Koslov, "TKO"
%%
"Got any ideas on how I should fight this guy?"
'From inside a main battle tank would be good.'
    -- Walker Smith and Garibaldi, "TKO"
%%
WS: "Glass jaw, but he kicks like a mule."
 C: "What is a mule?"
MG: "You're training one."
    -- Walker Smith, Caliban and Garibaldi, "TKO"
%%
"You have always been thick, Garibaldi."
    -- Walker Smith, "TKO"
%%
"I've had my fill of double shifts."
'Perhaps you'll remember that next time Ms. Sakai visits the station.'
    -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "TKO"
%%
"Watch your back."
    -- Walker Smith (to Garibaldi), "TKO"
%%
"They say food digests better if you chew it first."
'Don't talk. I've seen you eat. Does the term Doppler effect ring a bell?'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Grail"
%%
"Why is it that Ombuds Zimmerman never gets these cases? Only me..."
    -- Ombuds Wellington, "Grail"
%%
"The *Holy* Grail...as in King Arthur? The Last Supper?"
'It has many names, but only one promise: the regeneration and salvation
    of humankind. My order has been searching for the Grail for millennia.
    Since there's nowhere on Earth left to search, I've taken the search
    outward to other worlds.'
    -- Sinclair and Aldous Gajic, "Grail"
%%
"He is a holy man, a true seeker. Among my people, a true seeker is
 treated with the utmost reverence and respect. It doesn't matter that
 his Grail may or may not exist. What matters is that he strives for
 the perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he
 has never wavered or lost faith."
    -- Delenn (re: Aldous Gajic), "Grail"
%%
"He's probably the only true seeker we have."
'Then perhaps you do not know yourself as well as you think.'
    -- Sinclair and Delenn, "Grail"
%%
"Just got the word - another Lurker got his brain mulched."
    -- Garibaldi, "Grail"
%%
"Most of them are just people with nowhere else to go. They come here
    looking for a new life, a new job and when they don't find it, they
    can't afford transport back. What are you going to do, Mr. Garibaldi,
    shove them out an airlock?"
'Don't tempt me.'
    -- Sinclair & Garibaldi, "Grail"
%%
"What I want to know is why you believe you can't leave this station."
'Cause if I do, it'll blow up or disappear or something else awful like
    that'll happen.'
    -- Aldous Gajic and Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan, "Grail"
%%
"...but as I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked back and the station
 just sort of wrinkled, twisted like putty and just, just disappeared.
 *The minute I left*..."
    -- Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan (re: Babylon 4), "Grail"
%%
"When the word gets out about Miriam, I've got about as much chance of
 doing that as seeing a Vorlon do a strip-tease."
    -- Garibaldi [that = obtaining more evidence], "Grail"
%%
"There are two castes of Minbari: the warrior caste and the religious
    caste. The warrior caste would not understand. It is not their way."
'So we will not tell them and spare them the confusion.'
    -- Lennier and Delenn, "Grail"
%%
"These two sides of your culture, do they ever agree on anything?"
'Yes, and when they do, it is a terrible thing, a terrible power, as recent
    events have shown. Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime.'
    -- Aldous Gajic and Delenn, "Grail"
%%
"Did you know that Aldous character agreed to rehabilitate Jinxo? You
    think he's genuine?"
'Aldous? Yes. The question is, a genuine what? One person's lunatic
    is another's true seeker.'
"You've been hanging out with Delenn too much."
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Grail"
%%
"Vir! What are you doing?!?"
'I'm being efficient, sir.'
"A few more like you, Vir, and the entire Centauri Republic will efficient
    itself to extinction!"
    -- Londo and Vir, "Grail"
%%
"Fools to the left of me; feeders to the right. I need to find a real job."
    -- Londo, "Grail"
%%
"If I hadn't gotten to know you, I'd swear you were a few G's short of
 floating off."
    -- Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan, "Grail"
%%
"How can you find something if you don't even know what it looks like?"
'Sometimes it's the search that counts, not the finding.'
    -- Jinxo and Aldous Gajic, "Grail"
%%
"See yourself for what you are, not what others try to make you."
    -- Aldous Gajic (to Jinxo), "Grail"
%%
"Ah, Ambassador..."
'No! Get away from him! Get away! We've got to get out of here. He'll
    eat your mind."
"Thomas?"
'I saw him. I saw him do it. He'll suck your brain dry.'
"Thomas! Excuse me, Ambassador. Perhaps later?"
    -- Aldous Gajic and Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan (visiting Kosh), "Grail"
%%
"There is nothing in the dark. No fear. No pain. Only the light.
 Show yourself. Show yourself."
    -- Aldous Gajic (to the Na'Ka'Leen feeder), "Grail"
%%
"Noone knows exactly what you look like. That makes some people...
    a little nervous."
'Good.'
    -- Sinclair and Kosh, "Grail"
%%
"It's a hard thing to live your life...searching for something and never
    find it."
'Are you speaking of Aldous or someone else?'
    -- Sinclair and Delenn, "Grail"
%%
"He found what he was looking for, what we're all looking for. A reason."
'For what?'
"Everything, Commander. Everything."
    -- Delenn and Sinclair, "Grail"
%%
"Are you sure it's dead?"
'I'm positive. It's dead as a rock. I saw it with my own eyes.'
"How do you know it's not just resting? Feeders are sneaky, you know."
    -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Grail"
%%
"As long as you can hear them. As long as there's noise around. You're
    safe. But if you ever hear nothing. Worry."
'That's interesting. That's very interesting. It's awfully quiet out
    here, isn't it Ambassador? Ambassador? Londo? Open the door Londo!
    Ambassador, it's not funny. Open the door Londo.
    -- Garibaldi and Vir, "Grail"
%%
G: "No boom?"
S: "No boom."
I: "No boom *today*. Boom tomorrow. There's *always* a boom tomorrow."
    -- Garibaldi, Sinclair and Ivanova, "Grail"
%%
"What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here!"
    -- Ivanova, "Grail"
%%
"BOOM! Sooner or later. *BOOM*!"
    -- Ivanova, "Grail"
%%
"When do we begin?"
'As always, Mr. Gray, when the time is right...'
    -- Harriman Gray and Col. Ari Ben Zayn, "Eyes"
%%
"So, how long have you been stationed here, Officer Welch?"
'Since B5 went on-line.'
"Do you like it?"
'It beats a kick in the teeth.'
"How about Commander Sinclair? Does *he* beat a kick in the teeth?"
'Do I know you?'
"Aaron Franks, Quartermaster Corporation. We're hoping to supply the
    station and I'm trying to find out everything I can."
'Well, I'm trying to eat my lunch. *Quietly*.'
"Sorry to bother you."
    -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn and Officer Lou Welch, "Eyes"
%%
"Sexual prowess and rebellion..."
    -- Lennier, "Eyes"
%%
"Mr. Garibaldi. Very good."
'You know me?'
"Intimately. Fix you a drink?"
'I don't drink.'
"Really? Good. It's a vile habit when abused. Makes a soldier weak.
    Gets him in a *lot* of trouble."
    -- Col. Ben Zayn & Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"You're starting to irritate me, Mr. Franks, and I don't like being
 irritated. It gives me gas."
    -- Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"Enough people have played with my brain already this year."
    -- Sinclair, "Eyes"
%%
"Do I have the Colonel's permission to speak freely?"
'Getting the truth is my job. I expect to hear it whenever you talk to me.'
"Well, in that case, I think this is the biggest pile of horse-hockey I
    ever saw. Who the hell's running Earth Force? Abbott & Costello?"
    -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn and Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"Peekaboo."
    -- Garibaldi's password, "Eyes"
%%
"Lieutenant Commander, I'm aware of your hostility towards Psi Corps and
    the reason for it...and I sympathize."
'You do? How nice! I shall send you a card on your birthday.'
    -- Mr. Gray and Ivanova, "Eyes"
%%
"It's not easy to have your dreams snatched away just because you're
 different!"
    -- Harriman Gray, "Eyes"
%%
"Part of a dream is better than none."
    -- Harriman Gray, "Eyes"
%%
"Mr. Gray, I'm grateful the Psi Corps's given you a purpose in life, but
 when that purpose includes scanning *my* mind to prove *my* loyalty,
 it's not only an invasion of my privacy, but my *honor*. As for fear,
 if you enter my mind for any reason, I will twist your head off and use
 it for a chamberpot!"
    -- Ivanova, "Eyes"
%%
"These Vorlons have been trouble ever since they arrived."
'Well, they're like that. Real fun guys.'
    -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn & Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"Protests are as much use with the Vorlons as fairy wings on a cement truck."
    -- Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"If I knew who God was, I'd thank her."
    -- Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"Look, I know you're a by-the-book guy, Jeff, but let's face it - we've
 rewritten the book a few times to make B5 work...and made a few enemies
 along the way."
    -- Garibaldi (to Sinclair), "Eyes"
%%
"Earth Alliance may have problems, but they can't be solved by trampling
 on human dignity."
    -- Sinclair, "Eyes"
%%
"I was just about to embark on the mysteries of the fuel injection system.
    Would you care to join me?"
'Do me a favor. Embark on a journey to your quarters so I can get some
    sleep.'
    -- Lennier and Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"If I kill him, it would start a war..."
    -- Garibaldi (re: Lennier), "Eyes"
%%
S: "Will it make the voices go away?"
C: "No, but it will make them sing like birds, Sofie."
T: "A shame you refuse to cooperate."
    -- Sofie Ivanov, Comedy and Tragedy, "Eyes"
%%
"Only one way out. Only one way."
    -- Sofie Ivanova / Susan Ivanova, "Eyes"
%%
"May I borrow your PPG to shoot myself squarely in the head?"
'That won't be necessary...this time.
    -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "Eyes"
%%
"You can't imagine what it's like, to share your own mother's love for
 you, to feel it in your thoughts. Noone's ever been that close to me,
 Commander, and noone must ever intrude upon that memory, especially
 Psi Corps."
    -- Ivanova, "Eyes"
%%
"I've seen plenty like you - hot shots promoted up through the ranks without
 any real leadership ability. You think just because you fought on the Line,
 normal military standards don't apply to you. Well, think again, hero."
    -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn (to Sinclair), "Eyes"
%%
"I've always been proud to be a member of Earth Force, but right now, I'd
 sooner serve the Minbari. At least they have a sense of honor."
    -- Lt. Cdr. Susan Ivanova, "Eyes"
%%
"Are you going to arrest me, Garibaldi?"
'No way. *I* want to live to see the future. I just want to talk with
    you, to reason with you, recite a few choice passages from my favorite
    reading...for as long as it takes.'
"You don't play fair. Okay, I surrender."
    -- Ivanova and Garibaldi, "Eyes"
%%
"You're insane."
'Maybe I am. Maybe it's crazy to think that Earth Force still respects
    honor, freedom and human dignity when a maggot like you can spit on
    some of the best officers I've ever served with, all for the sake
    of your own ambition.'
    -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn & Cdr. Jeffrey Sinclair, "Eyes"
%%
"Yes, I know all about you and the Minbari."
    -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn (to Sinclair), "Eyes"
%%
"It's good to have things back to normal."
    -- Ivanova, "Eyes"
%%
"A war cruiser. Never thought I'd see one of *those* again."
'They're still big and ugly.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi reminisce, "Legacies"
%%
"Attention Zocalo shoppers. You can now find all your culinary needs at
 Wong's Kitchen on Level 6. Fresh chak'ri are on special while they last.
 Please bring your own holding tank."
    -- Zocalo announcer, "Legacies"
%%
"We have no interest in explaining our ways to you."
    -- Alyt Neroon, "Legacies"
%%
"You know, Jeff, I can't believe you're really going to attend this
    ceremony. I mean, this Branmer guy planned and led the attack on
    the Line."
'I know. He commanded one of the ships that splashed my team, but the
    war is over. At least, that's what I keep telling myself.'
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Legacies"
%%
"It is an unhappy journey on which you travel."
'For the warrior, there is no other end to the journey.'
    -- Delenn and Alyt Neroon, "Legacies"
%%
"You don't like it, do you?"
'My preferences are not under discussion, Commander.'
    -- Sinclair and Delenn, "Legacies"
%%
"Impetuous. Is this how you reacted on the Line, Commander?"
'This isn't the Line.'
"No. *We* were in control there."
    -- Neroon and Sinclair, "Legacies"
%%
"It's been my experience that discussions of old battles only interest
    historians. What do *you* think, Commander?"
'I think...I have a station to run.'
    -- Delenn and Sinclair, "Legacies"
%%
"Diplomacy, Commander?"
    -- Garibaldi, "Legacies"
%%
"This was the greatest of us: warrior, leader, the hero of the Line. He
 fought with honor, bravery and with vision. Now, he belongs to the Ages."
    -- Alyt Neroon (in Branmer's ceremony), "Legacies"
%%
N: "Branmer's death was a great sorrow to us. To lose the vessel of his
   soul will bring his clan's fury upon you."
S: "Are you threatening to make war over this?"
N: "That is how the last one started, with the murder of Dukaht."
G: "*That* was a tragic accident."
    -- Neroon, Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Legacies"
%%
"Garibaldi was right. He said this was going to be trouble."
'There's nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right.'
    -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Legacies"
%%
"The Corps takes care of its own."
    -- Talia Winters (re: Psi Corps), "Legacies"
%%
"You'd probably be the only human there."
'Ah, but we are prepared to pay so well for the privilege of entertaining
    her.'
    -- Dr. Franklin and Na'Toth (re: living on Narn), "Legacies"
%%
"I hope that isn't the sign of some frailty in her."
'Why don't you check her *teeth* while you're at it?'
"Think that's a good idea?"
    -- Na'Toth and Ivanova (re: Alisa Beldon), "Legacies"
%%
"Oh, by the way, you know what they say Narn taste like?"
'Yeah. Like chicken.'
    -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi, "Legacies"
%%
"Man, I really need a vacation."
    -- Garibaldi, "Legacies"
%%
"I don't take kindly to threats, Alyt."
'I do not *make* threats, Commander.'
    -- Sinclair and Neroon, "Legacies"
%%
"All right, Alisa. What *do* you want?"
    -- Talia Winters, "Legacies"
%%
"Apparently, non-human minds can cause a problem for someone who isn't
    trained."
'Yes, I *have* heard this. We do not all think the same way.'
    -- Ivanova and Delenn, "Legacies"
%%
"You had no right to touch the Shai Alyt's body! He was warrior caste by
    right of his father."
'And religious caste by right of his mother. You know which takes
    precedence.'
    -- Neroon and Delenn, "Legacies"
%%
"It stops here or the Star Riders will be destroyed, dishonored by your
    actions!"
'Do you speak for yourself?'
"I speak for the entire Grey Council."
    -- Delenn and Neroon, "Legacies"
%%
"That is a direct order from the Grey Council. You will obey it, as you
    did our order to end the war. Do you understand?""
'Yes. I understand, Satai Delenn.'
    -- Delenn and a very subordinate Neroon, "Legacies"
%%
"There's no price high enough to compensate for being surrounded by Narns."
    -- Talia Winters, "Legacies"
%%
"You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some small wisdom
    in letting your species survive."
'We like to think so.'
    -- Neroon and Sinclair, "Legacies"
%%
"Alisa could become an instrument of great communication between humans and
 Minbari. We suffer a lack there, *as you know*, Commander."
    -- Ambassador Delenn, "Legacies"
%%
"When you looked into Delenn's mind, did you see anything else? Anything
    unusual?"
'There was one other thing. A word: chrysalis. I don't know what it means.'
"It's a cocoon, I think."
'A cocoon? That's weird. She shut down real fast when I touched that.
    Why would she want to hide that?'
"I don't know..."
    -- Sinclair and Alisa Beldon, "Legacies"
%%
"It seems like every time I get into the tube, Mr. Garibaldi's there. It's
    like he *knows*."
'Talia, Mr. Garibaldi is many things, but he's not omniscient.'
[Tube opens and Garibaldi is there.]
"I think I'll take the stairs."
'I think I'll join you.'
    -- Talia Winters and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"This doesn't worry you in the slightest?"
'On the contrary - it scares the hell out of me, but what better way to
    go out than in the cause of advancing scientific knowledge?'
"Is this a multiple choice question? 'Cause I have some ideas..."
    -- Ivanova and Dr. Tasaki, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Your government stands to profit substantially from access to that
    sector. The jump gate fees are pocket change by comparison."
'Obviously, what I consider a tent, you consider a pocket.'
    -- Sinclair and Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"What a pleasure it is to deal with someone reasonable. Negotiations
 are so much more enjoyable when certain individuals are not here to
 interfere."
    -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"If the Narns all stood together in one place and hated all at the same
    time, that hatred could fly across dozens of light years and reduce
    Centauri Prime to a ball of ash. That's how much they hate *us*."
'You don't have to respond in kind.'
"Of course we do. It is a natural law. Physics tells us that for every
    action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us,
    we hate them, they hate us back and so, here we are, victims of
    mathematics."
    -- Londo and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"He never listens."
'He will, sooner or later.'
"How can you be sure?"
'Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope
    that things will get better, that our inheritors will know a world
    that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless and
    evolution is vastly overrated.'
    -- Sinclair and Delenn (re: Londo), "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"The third principle of sentient life is the capacity for self-sacrifice,
 the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a
 cause, a friend, a loved one."
    -- Draal, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Soon you will have forgotten all about your old friend Draal."
'Not if I live to be a thousand and one.'
    -- Draal and Delenn, A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"The guerrillas, whose ancestors migrated to Mars from Earth over the past
 hundred years, have demanded independence for the Mars Colony or, and I
 quote, 'The sand will run red with Earther blood.'"
    -- Derek Mobotabwe, ISN News, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Terrible to see places I grew up going up in flames."
    -- Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"A curious answer from one who told me that a half-truth is the worst
 kind of lie."
    -- Delenn (to Draal), "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Our world is changing, Delenn. I'm not sure when it began to change:
    perhaps the war, perhaps the death of Dukaht, perhaps the darkness
    was there all along and we refused to see it."
'If you're referring to the growing division between the religious and
    military castes...'
"That and more than that. There is a sense that we are lost, adrift. In
    the streets, in the temples, you can hear it in their voices, their
    manner: an anger just beneath the surface, a growing dissatisfaction,
    a self-involvement above the needs of others. It is not the same
    world in which I was born, Delenn. Not the same at all."
    -- Draal and Delenn, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Let me get this straight: I'm an Earth Force security officer, clearance
 level Ultra-Violet Alpha and *I'm* not considered authorized personnel?"
    -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Commander, what will you do if you find anything of value down there?"
'Hmm, the odds of that are pretty small. It's probably just an automated
    homing beacon left over from hundreds of years ago.'
"Yes, but if it isn't, will you tell me?"
'No!'
"Just making sure we know where we stand."
    -- Londo and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"How did you know about the Center? That's supposed to be classified."
'It is, but that's never stopped me before.'
    -- Talia Winters and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore
 Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens
 again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!"
    -- Ivanova (re: Babylon 5 mantra), "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Civilians."
    -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Just kidding about that God part. No offense."
    -- Ivanova (after looking up), "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Well, we don't know what other long range weapons might be down there so
    until we know more, I definitely consider it a threat to station
    security."
'Same here. It's also a potential first contact situation. I'd say we
    pretty much have to go down there and check it out. Wouldn't you
    agree Lieutenant Commander.'
"Absolutely."
    -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Water. Fascinating. I never touch the stuff myself."
    -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Mr. Garibaldi, whatever it is, it can't be that bad!"
'You try and kiss me and I'll break your arm.'
"We're not that close, Mr. Garibaldi."
    -- Londo and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"The next day, I woke up. I saw her in the light of day, sleeping against
    my arm and I decided I would rather chew off my arm than wake her up."
'Ohhh, that's sweet.'
"Nooo, nooo. She had a voice that could curdle fresh milk. 'Londooo!'
    'Yes, dear?' 'Londo!' 'Coming, my darling. I'll be right there, my
    love bug.'"
    -- Londo and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Now, I go to spread happiness through the rest of the station. It is a
 terrible responsibility, but I have learned to live with it."
    -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"The Free Mars movement has been growing for nearly a decade, but noone
 suspected they were this organized or this well armed."
    -- Psi Corps Rep (to Talia), "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Well, that'll cut down on tourism."
    -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Commander..."
'Yeah?'
"I think I've got to go to the bathroom."
'Tell me about it!'
    -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"Six thousand years of recorded history, a history that includes remarkable
 composers, astonishing symphonies, but what is the one song that half of
 them sing to their children generation after generation?
   You put your right hand in; you put your right hand out.
   You put your whole self in and you turn yourself about.
   You do the hokey-pokey; you give a little shout.
   That's...what it's all about.
It doesn't mean anything. I have been studying it for seven days. I had
 the computer analyze it. I swear to you: it does not mean A THING!"
    -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"I rather enjoyed the song."
'*Don't* tell him.'
"You're sure?"
'*Trust* me.'
    -- Draal and Delenn, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"They're not happy about you knowing about the Center either."
'Yeah, well it's an imperfect Universe.'
    -- Talia (about Psi Corps) and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like
 to catalog the full extent of out stupidity. For future reference."
    -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
%%
"I don't know if you appreciate how messy this situation can get."
    -- Captain Ellis Pierce, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"This isn't a backwater outpost or Bronze tech world where you can come
 in, bare your teeth and expect everyone to fall in line. This is a
 diplomatic station and your kind of heavy-handedness is just going to
 make our job harder. This kind of help we don't need."
    -- Sinclair (to Captain Pierce), "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"I'll need complete silence or I'll have to ask for another volunteer from
 the audience. Now, let's see. What was that magic word again? Shazam?
 No, that's not it. I'll tell you what. I'll go home and look in my books,
 then I'll come back. If you're still talking trash about killing Marsies,
 we'll try it again and again until we get it right, huh?"
    -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Ever since the war, Earthforce Command has been obsessed with getting
 their hands on new technology."
    -- Senator Hidoshi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"So, if we go down there, it blows. If we don't, it blows anyway, just a
 little later. It's a good thing I'm Russian. We're used to hopeless
 situations."
    -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Ambassador, do you *really* want to know what's going on down there
    right now?"
'Yes. Absolutely.'
"Boom. Boom boom boom. Boom boom. Boom! Have a nice day."
'Fah. You can never get a straight answer from anyone around here.'
    -- Ivanova and Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"One last thing: a favor. If we have to evacuate, you know we'll never get
    everyone off the station. Ambassadors, women and children, civilians go
    first. Some of the command staff will have to stay on board, until...
    I'd appreciate it if you could make sure Ivanova gets on the last ship
    out. She'll want to stay, but she's got her whole career ahead of her."
'Understood. She'll be on it if I have to drug her and toss her in before
    the doors close.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Commander, it's not your decision. We're going. What are you going to do,
    shoot us down?"
'If that's what's required to protect this station, yes.'
"Excuse me?"
    -- Captain Pierce and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Commander, if you order your ships to fire on my fighters, you can kiss
 your career good-bye."
    -- Captain Ellis Pierce, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Worst case of testosterone poisoning I've ever seen."
    -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Please. Do not let them take the machine. It's not for them. It's not
 for this time."
    -- Varn, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Of everyone on this station, I never thought *you* would hold out on me."
    -- Londo (to Delenn), "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Commander, we have a situation here. Where the hell have you been?"
'Trying to solve it!'
    -- Capt. Pierce and Cdr. Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Strange. I wonder why he appeared just to you [Londo], Draal and the
    Commander."
'Perhaps because we are most familiar with the third principle of sentient
    life."
    -- Delenn and Draal, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"You can be of great service, Ambassador, if you are willing to dare
    greatly."
'You are talking to the Centauri that led the raid on Fralus XII. Granted,
    it was a long time ago, but perhaps it is time to return to old habits.'
    -- Draal and Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"As a young and foolish Centauri, I swore that I would die on my feet,
 doing something noble and brave and futile. Perhaps it was not so wild
 a dream as I thought...or as foolish. It is better than waiting for
 the inevitable."
    -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"My God. Whoever's piloting that shuttle's a madman!"
    -- Ivanova (about Londo), "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Who said the good old days are gone, eh?"
    -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Now, uh, landing thrusters. Landing thrusters. If I were a landing
 thruster, which one of these would I be?"
    -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"All my life, I have searched for a way to serve others. To me, there is
 no higher calling, no greater destiny than to live for another and, if
 necessary, to die for another, to somehow make the world a better place.
 I had done all I could on my world. I came looking for a reason, a way
 to live out my remaining years with direction and purpose. Here I have
 found it! I will save lives. The wonders of this place will take
 centuries to explore. Let my life have meaning. Help me to do what we
 both know must be done."
    -- Draal, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"I am sending this message to all three parties involved in the struggle
 for control of this planet. It belongs to none of you. It belongs
 only to itself and to the future. Commander Sinclair, the secrets buried
 here must *remain* secret. They would give any race an advantage over
 all others, thus it is in the interest of all races that none should
 gain exclusive control of it. We entrust the safekeeping of this place
 to the Babylon 5 Advisory Council. We will rely upon your guidance,
 Commander, and the enlightened self-interest of the Council to make sure
 this world is left alone *until the time is right*. If enlightened
 self-interest should prove insufficient to the cause, understand this:
 the defensive systems on this world are now fully operational. Do not
 attempt to come here again. Any approach will be met with resistance. Any
 ship attempting to land will be destroyed. When the time is right, we
 will be here waiting for you, but not until then. Good-bye."
    -- Draal, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Tell me it's a wonder, so that I may sleep when all I can see in the
    night is this place."
'It *is* a wonder. The machine will extend his life as it did for me.
    He will see all the tomorrows, hear all the songs, touch the edge
    of the Universe with this thoughts."
    -- Delenn and Varn, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"It's quiet. I like quiet."
    -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"When you figured out that someone was going to have to take Varn's place
    down there, why didn't you come to us and let us handle it?"
'Because if I had, I know in my heart that Commander Sinclair would be the
    one down there right now. He's looking for a purpose, but his destiny
    lies elsewhere.'
    -- Garibaldi and Delenn, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"And Londo? How'd you get him to go along with this?"
'An exchange of promises. I now owe him a great favor. He will come to
    collect, sooner or later, but I think he enjoyed it. He discovered
    something inside him that he had thought was buried long, long ago.'
"Yeah, well, one thing I've discovered is that some things are better
    *left* buried."
    -- Garibaldi and Delenn, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Franz? What in the hell kind of a name is Franz?"
    -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II"
%%
"Nothing personal, but you look like hell."
    -- Garibaldi (to Ivanova), "Babylon Squared"
%%
I: "God, I hate mornings."
S: "We've noticed. Personally, I find it the best part of the day."
G: "Oh, me too."
I: "We all have our cross to bear."
    -- Ivanova, Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Garibaldi, you're a dead man!"
    -- Susan Ivanova, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Are you sure you don't require a pilot, Ambassador?"
'Quite sure. Some things one must do alone.'
    -- Babylon Control and Delenn, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Oh, God. It's starting again. It's starting again!"
    -- Major Louis Krantz, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Okay. It's morning. You're getting ready to go to work. You pull on
    your pants. Do you fasten and then zip or zip and then fasten?"
'What kind of question is that?'
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared"
%%
'Why do you want to know?'
"Why do I want to know? Because I think of these things sometimes. I was
    getting dressed this morning, for a second, I couldn't remember which
    I did first. I started thinking about it: does everybody do it the same
    way? Is it a left-handed, right-handed thing?"
'You think about this stuff a lot?'
"Yeah. Look, okay, I'm sorry I asked. You're always so serious all the time.
    Not every conversation has to be the end of the world as we know it."
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi (re: fasten-zip), "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Fasten, then zip. You?"
'Fasten-zip.'
    -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Want to talk socks?"
'No.'
"Just a question."
'I'm not having this conversation.'
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Summoned, I come. In Valen's name, I take the place that has been
 prepared for me. I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star.
 We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light."
    -- Satai Delenn, "Babylon Squared"
%%
 D: "Why have I been called?"
#1: "It has been ten cycles since Dukaht has left this world to take his
    place with Valen and the Nine who were, ten cycles since our people had
    a leader. The time of mourning is complete. We must now choose another."
#2: "In your absence, we have discussed, debated, prayed for guidance. We
    must choose wisely and well."
 D: "Why was I not told of these deliberations?"
#1: "We thought it best in light of our decision."
#2: "You have been chosen to lead us. Of all the Council, you have seen
    most, traveled most, know much of the other species, their world and
    governments. There could be no other choice."
    -- Delenn and Grey Council #1 & 2, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"They burned through level 7 and 8. Can't stop 'em! They're everywhere!"
'Garibaldi!'
"Look, I've rigged the fusion reactors, but there's not much time. Get
    going. I'll hold 'em as long as I can. Look! Come on. This isn't a
    conversation. Jeff, it's okay. I finally understand. This is the
    moment I was born for. Now go. Go! Go! Go!"
'Wait! Wait!'
"They're coming through. Take that! Take it! You want some? How 'bout
    you? How 'bout you? Take some! Take some! Take some!"
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair (in the future), "Babylon Squared"
%%
"If I enter the Great Hall, I'll never leave it again. I will live out
    my days and my nights in that place."
'Yes. It is a great honor.'
"I cannot do it. I cannot accept the calling."
'In over a thousand years, noone has refused.'
"Perhaps it is time. I hear their calling. I know their reasons for
    it and a part of me yearns to accept, but I must listen to the greater
    calling of my heart."
'And what does your heart tell you?'
"That I must stay where I am, that I must remain with Babylon 5, that I
    have a part to play in the change that is coming."
    -- Delenn and Grey Council #1, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Do you know what you're doing? Are you fully aware of the consequences?"
'Yes, I am.'
    -- Grey Council #1 and Delenn, "Babylon Squared"
%%
S: "Why do you need Babylon 5?"
Z: "Zathras tell, you let Zathras go? Finish what Zathras came for?"
G: "Zathras tells maybe we don't break Zathras scrawny little neck."
    -- Sinclair, Zathras, and Garibaldi, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"Great war, terrible war. There is much killings. Everyone fighting...a
    great darkness. It is the end of everything! Zathras warn, but no no
    noone listen to poor Zathras, no. Great war, but great hope of peace.
    Need place. Place to gather, to fight, to organize."
'You need Babylon 4 as a base of operations in a war, is that it?'
"To help save galaxy on the side of light. So they tell me. Must have
    or it is the end of all. The One leads us. The One tells us to go,
    we go. We live for the One. We would die for the One. We pulled this
    place through time to save us all."
    -- Zathras and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared"
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"Much apologizing. Mathematics not Zathras skill."
    -- Zathras, "Babylon Squared"
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"It is the One."
'He's in pain.'
"Yes. Much pain. Warned him, Zathras did, but willing to sacrifice himself
    for others. We stopped the time taking to let these escape station."
'You're saying he deliberately stopped Babylon 4 to let the crew get off?'
    -- Zathras and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared"
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"This Council stopped the war against the humans because of prophecy,
 because  Valen said that the humans, or some among them, had a destiny
 which we could not interfere with. It was my place to study them, to
 determine if the prophecy was correct. I have not yet finished that task."
    -- Satai Delenn, "Babylon Squared"
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#1: "What is it that makes the humans so special? What is it that draws
    you to them?"
#2: "They fight. They argue. They are ruled by passions and fears."
 D: "Yes, and that is their strength. They do not seek conformity. They
    do not surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry, their unique
    capacity to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them and they only come
    back stronger. The passions we deplore have taken them to their place in
    their stars and will propel them to a great destiny. Their only weakness
    is that they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they
    have come to this place through two million years of evolution, struggle
    and blood and they are better than they think and nobler than they know.
    They carry within them the capacity to walk amongst the stars like giants.
    They are the future and we have much to learn from them."
    -- Grey Council #1 & #2 and Delenn, "Babylon Squared"
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"Think hard, Delenn. This Council has never before been divided. We
    may best avoid division by removing you from our company. You
    could become outcast."
'I understand, but I must do what I believe is right.'
    -- Grey Council #1 and Delenn, "Babylon Squared"
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"Zathras die, but Zathras die for cause. Maybe stop great war. Maybe
    Zathras great hero. Maybe build statue to Zathras and others come,
    remember Zathras."
'What if we take you with us, put you on trial?'
"Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras
    die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras."
    -- Zathras and Major Louis Krantz, "Babylon Squared"
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"Zathras does not want to die, but if it is the only way, then Zathras
 dies. It is *life*."
    -- Zathras, "Babylon Squared"
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"I don't understand you, Michael. We've got a good life here; we've got
 history. You've met this Sinclair character twice and now you're off to
 Babylon 5, just like that. Doesn't what we have mean anything to you?"
    -- Lise Hampton (to Garibaldi in the past), "Babylon Squared"
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"I think you've got something to prove, that somehow maybe taking this job,
 will mean the last five years didn't happen, but I'm part of those years,
 Michael, and I will not go to Babylon 5 with you. It's got to be one or
 the other."
    -- Lise Hampton (to Garibaldi in the past), "Babylon Squared"
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"Go. Leave me!"
'I can't!"
"Go. You must listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. Go. Please.
    Go for Zathras."
    -- Zathras and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared"
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"Zathras knew you would not leave him. Zathras trusts The One."
    -- Zathras, "Babylon Squared"
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"I tried. I tried to warn them, but it all happened just the way I
    remember it."
'I know. It's time. We have to go. They're waiting for us.'
    -- Sinclair and Delenn (in the future), "Babylon Squared"
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"You think that bit was true about a great war and Babylon 4 being the
    base for someone to try to bring peace to the galaxy?"
'I don't know, but if it is true, I wish them luck. The station was built
    to create peace. Maybe now it'll do so in a way nobody ever expected,
    but it's still on the same mission.'
    -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared"
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"These are curious times, Delenn. I feel a great change in my bones.
 A new beginning, an end, I cannot say. We are surrounded by signs
 and portents and I feel a darkness pressing at our backs."
    -- Grey Council #1, "Babylon Squared"
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"We don't know where Babylon 4 was going or when it was going. Who knows?
    It may show up again sometime."
'Well, if it does, this time I'm going and Garibaldi's staying here.'
    -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Babylon Squared"
%%
"You can start by removing your clothes."
'Not without dinner and flowers.'
    -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Look, I don't mind if you bend the rules a little, Doctor. I mean I bend a
 few myself. But I do like to be informed. If I'm going to share in the
 blame, I'd at least like to share in some of the fun."
    -- Ivanova, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"I say we space the creep. A couple of hours at hard vacuum would do him
 and the gene pool a world of good."
    -- Garibaldi (re: Karl Mueller), "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Spacing is only invoked under conditions of mutiny or treason."
    -- Ombuds Wellington, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Anything a telepath sees while inside a defendant's mind is inadmissible
 evidence."
    -- Ombuds Wellington, "The Quality of Mercy"
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"It's not right."
'And this is right?'
"It's the law."
'That's not what I asked.'
    -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Here you will see the heart and soul of Babylon 5...also its spleen, its
 kidneys, a veritable parade of internal organs."
    -- Londo (to Lennier), "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Seems I've left my credit chip in my quarters. I don't suppose you
    brought yours, hmm?"
'Well, yes, I...I did, but my allowance is...is very small.'
"Oh, now don't apologize. We'll make do."
    -- Londo and Lennier, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"There's no alcohol in here, is there?"
'Alcohol? No, of course not. Here, drink up.'
"Because my people do not react well at all to alcohol. Even a small
    quantity causes psychotic impulses and violent homicidal rages."
'Eh-eh-eh. Alcohol. My mistake. Mertana? Just water for him, thank you.'
    -- Lennier and Londo, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Kill me!"
    -- Londo, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"How many? How many?"
'How many worlds are there? How many banquets? How many flowers waiting
    to be harvested? How many new voices waiting to be included into my
    choir? I have to keep adding voices until the choir is big enough to
    sing me into Heaven when I die. It's necessary, don't you see? The
    overture is just beginning, Ms. Winters. Just beginning.'
    -- Talia Winters and Karl Mueller, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"No, stay. Stay for the symphony. We'll save a place for you."
    -- Karl Mueller (to Talia), "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Interesting. Do you know that the odds of this particular combination
    are five thousand to one against?"
'Lennier.'
"Yes Londo?"
'Stop that.'
"Does that mean I've won again?"
    -- Lennier and Londo, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Pay no attention to him. He's from out of town."
    -- Londo (re: Lennier), "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"I'll raise a red."
'Red. I have those!'
"Yes, you do."
    -- Londo and Lennier, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Brrr. Is it cold in here or is it just me?"
    -- Londo, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"You heard Mr. Garibaldi. You did the right thing."
'Darling, I did the necessary thing. That is not always the same as the
    right thing.'
    -- Janice and Dr. Laura Rosen, "The Quality of Mercy"
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"I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen."
'Yes, and I am prepared to give you one, Commander...as soon as the room
    stops spinning.'
"This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning."
'You begin to see my problem, hmm?'
    -- Sinclair and Londo, "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"I'm going to take a vow of silence concerning this entire conversation."
    -- Lennier (to Londo), "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"They are a strange people, but they are okay."
    -- Londo (re: the Minbari), "The Quality of Mercy"
%%
"Keep this up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a planet to protect."
    -- Londo, "Chrysalis"
%%
"You've got to stop them. They're going to kill him... they're going
 to kill him."
    -- Petrov, "Chrysalis"
%%
"Look. Do you want to get married or don't you?"
'Yes'
"Well, good. How's April by you?"
'July is better.'
    -- Sinclair and Catherine Sakai, "Chrysalis"
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"How many gods do you think I must have offended to have ended up with
    G'Kar's teeth buried so deeply in my throat that I can barely breathe?"
'All of them?'
"Sounds right."
    -- Londo and Vir, "Chrysalis"
%%
"I think I'll stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be
 quicker and I suspect, after a while, I might even come to enjoy it."
    -- Londo, "Chrysalis"
%%
"This is like being nibbled to death by...um...pah... What are those Earth
     creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet, go `quack`."
'Cats.'
    -- Londo and Vir, "Chrysalis"
%%
"This is like being nibbled to death by cats."
    -- Londo, "Chrysalis"
%%
"The last time I saw Petrov was just before he went looking for you.
 Whatever he saw, whatever he knew, scared him half to death."
    -- Lurker #2, "Chrysalis"
%%
"I'm here to be of service, Ambassador! My associates believe that you're
 a person of great potential, trapped in a position where your skills
 are unseen and unappreciated. They'd like to change that."
    -- Morden (to Londo), "Chrysalis"
%%
"There comes a time when you look into the mirror...and you realize
 that what you see is all you will ever be and you accept it. Or you
 kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors."
    -- Londo, "Chrysalis"
%%
"What is the price for this...help?"
'No price, Ambassador. But at some point in the future, if we deliver on
    our promises, we may come to you and ask you for a favor. That's all."
    -- Londo and Morden, "Chrysalis"
%%
"You will not see me again as I am now."
    -- Delenn (to Kosh), "Chrysalis"
%%
"Is there something wrong with your hearing?"
'No, it's just for a moment I thought I thought I had entered an
    alternate universe or something.'
    -- Londo and Vir, "Chrysalis"
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"I'm afraid the Ambassador is resting. He is rather fatigued from his
    *heavy* schedule. Perhaps if you come back."
[3 women walk out from G'Kar's room]
"I believe the Ambassador can see you now."
    -- Na'Toth to Sinclair, "Chrysalis"
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"I've had this feeling lately that we're standing at a crossroads, and I
 don't like where we're going. But there's still time to choose another
 path. You can be part of that process, G'Kar. Choose wisely. Not just
 for the Centauri, but for the good of your own people as well.'
     -- Sinclair (to G'Kar), "Chrysalis"
%%
"Come to my quarters, and I'll tell you as much as I can. But don't wait
 too long, Commander. Certain things have been set in motion, and I do
 not have much time."
    -- Delenn (to Sinclair), "Chrysalis"
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"It wasn't the humans. The Centauri don't have the will. The Vorlon's don't
 care. The Minbari wouldn't do it. The other worlds aren't powerful enough
 for a strike like this. There's someone else out there, Na'Toth."
    -- G'Kar, "Chrysalis"
%%
"Who are we to stand in the way of prophecy?"
    -- Delenn, "Chrysalis"
%%
"But what if you're wrong?"
'Then speak well of me when I'm gone.
    -- Lennier and Delenn, "Chrysalis"
%%
"They're going to...going to kill the president. At the transfer
 point on Io. Warn him! Warn him..."
    -- Garibaldi, "Chrysalis"
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'But you killed ten thousand Narns.'
"I didn't know you cared. Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million,
    what's the difference? They're Narns, Ambassador. Your sworn enemy."
    -- Londo and Morden, "Chrysalis"
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"Ambassador, your name is being spoken at the highest levels of the Centauri
 government. They don't know how you did it. They don't care. They credit
 you with saving them from another embarrassment without creating a war
 in the process. They've noticed you, Ambassador, which was the point of
 the exercise. I hear they have great plans for you."
    -- Morden (to Londo), "Chrysalis"
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"Yes, but ten thousand in cold blood."
'Ambassador, you're a hero. Enjoy it! I'll be around.'
    -- Morden and Londo, "Chrysalis"
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"It is important that we move on to create the world that Louis Santiago
 would have wanted for his children, my children, and for posterity yet to
 come. We will begin by focusing more on the needs of our own people, to
 sustain them through this difficult time, and to prepare them for the
 tasks ahead."
    -- President Clark, "Chrysalis"
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"And so it begins."
    -- Kosh (to Sinclair), "Chrysalis"
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"You have forgotten something."
    -- Kosh (to Sinclair), "Chrysalis"
%%
"What is it?"
'A chrysalis. She is changing.'
"Into what?"
'I don't know.'
    -- Sinclair and Lennier, "Chrysalis"
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"Na'Toth, by the time you get this message, I will be gone. I have certain
 suspicions about the attack on quadrant 37. I'm taking the first transport
 back to homeworld. You will not be able to contact me. I will contact you.
 And, uh, one more thing. Tell the commander he was right. We were at a
 crossroads, and there is no going back. Expect me when you see me."
    -- G'Kar, "Chrysalis"
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"He is an annoying man, but I would miss him if he..."
    -- Londo, "Chrysalis"
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"Yes, I think he's ready. Perfect for our needs. No, no, he suspects nothing.
 When the time is right, Ambassador Mollari will do exactly as we wish.
 Destiny is on our side."
    -- Morden, "Chrysalis"
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"Nothing's the same any more."
    -- Sinclair, "Chrysalis"