Quotes from Babylon 5

	"If you get near a point, make it."     - Ivanova to Bester, "Ship of Tears" Sheridan: "So how did you find out about all this?" Bester:     "I'm... a... telepath... Work it out!"     - "Ship of Tears" "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them. So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."     - Marcus Cole, "A Late Delivery from Avalon" "Now, listen to me. I do not like insects. I do not like little brown things with eight legs. I do not like anything with eight legs. Well, except for the Vinzini, but only because they are terrible at cards. Something to do with compound eyes, I think. I want this thing dead !     - Londo to B5 Maintenance in "Sic Transit Vir" "What is more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns? One angry Narn with a key!"     - Centauri Minister to Vir, "Sic Transit Vir" It's getting faster. I swear they are evolving right before my eyes. If you see something this big with eight legs coming your way, let me know. I have to kill it before it develops language skills."     - Londo to Vir and Lyndisty, "Sic Transit Vir" "You see, it's like I've always said: 'You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word'."     - Marcus to Lennier, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiot would fight a war on twelve fronts."     - Londo to Lord Refa, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
	Delenn:   "This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, .. or be destroyed." Drake:    "Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship." Delenn:   "Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."     - "Severed Dreams"
	"Always plant a lie inside a truth. Makes it easier to swallow."     - Sheridan, "Point of No Return" "You have a chance few others will ever have, Mollari. You still have three opportunities to avoid the fire that waits for you at the end of your journey. You've already wasted two others. You must save the eye that does not see. You must not kill the one who is already dead. And at the last, you must surrender yourself to your greatest fear, knowing that it will destroy you. Now, if you fail all the others, that is your final chance for redemption."     - Lady Morella to Londo, "Point of No Return" "And according to one of our units on the border of Centauri space, they've continued massing their fleet. We don't know why. Maybe they expect a counter attack, it's hard to say. And they have much to be concerned about. There's always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon, the kind that eats the sun every thirty days. It's a nuisance, but what would you expect from reptiles. Did I mention that my nose was on fire? That I have fifteen wild badgers living in my trousers? I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?"     - Marcus to Ivanova, "Messages from Earth" Franklin:   "I will not support murder. We can not kill him." Ivanova:    "Can we wound him ? Just a little?"     - "Dust to Dust" Bester: "If I had my talent working, I could haved warned you when he was coming." Garibaldi: "And if I had a baseball bat we could hang you from the ceiling and play pinata. <sigh> I still think I should have gone right.... to G'Kar." Bester: "We have no evidence that he made the sale yet. Why annoy the Narn without cause or if we're wrong, shut off the problem at the source and the rest attends to itself. <pause> A pinata huh, so, you think of me as something bright & cheerful, full of toys & candy for young children....Thank you, that makes me feel.... much better about our relationship."     - "Dust to Dust" "Good luck, Captain. I think you are about to go where everyone has gone before."     - Ivanova to Sheridan, "Voices of Authority" Marcus:   "I think you just hit a nerve. Vorlons must owe them money or something." Ivanova:   "This also tells they understand our language. They are just not willing to speak to us using that." Marcus:   "Who knew they were French?"     - "Voices of Authority" "I heard a joke today. I probably shouldn't repeat it, but .. who are you going to tell? How many Centauri does it take to .. ahem screw in a lightbulb? .. Just one, but in the great old days of Republic hundreds of servants would change a thousand lightbulbs at our slightest whim."     - Londo to Lennier, "Convictions" Sheridan:   "Well, as answers go, short to the point, utterly useless and totally consistent, what I've come to expect from a Vorlon." Kosh:         "Good." ... Kosh:         "Yes." Sheridan:   "I really hate it when you do that." Kosh:         "Good."     - "Matters of Honor" Ivanova:    "I'll leave it to you to try take all the fun out of life. I mean, come on, where's your sense of mystery, adventure ?" Sheridan:   "Are you trying to cheer me up ?" Ivanova:    "No, sir. Wouldn't dream of it." Sheridan:   "Good. I hate being cheered up. It's depressing." Ivanova:    "Well, in that case, we all are going to die horrible, painful, bleeding deaths." Sheridan:   "Thank you, I feel so much better now."     - "Matters of Honor" Garibaldi:   "I'm not authorized for that kind of information." Endawi:      "But you are the head of security." Garibaldi:   "Then what kind of head of security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know ? I know what I know because I have to know it. And if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me either. Now look, we have tried most of the other ambassadors, why don't you speak to G'Kar, maybe he knows something about this ship." Endawi:      "Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval." Garibaldi:   "So you'll ask unofficially. And I can give you reasonable assurances that the head of security will not report you for doing so." Endawi:      "Because you won't tell yourself about it ?" Garibaldi:   "That's right. I never get involved with my own life. It's too much trouble." Endawi:      "This is a very strange place you have here, Mr. Garibaldi." Garibaldi:   "Thank you."     - "Matters of Honor"
	"Kosh, you know what is at stake. If you are going to do anything, you must do it now!"     - Delenn, "The Fall of Night"
	"I apologise, I'm sorry. I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station with a quarter million civillians, including your own people.... and I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell!"     - Sheridan, "The Fall of Night" "If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, the work becomes corrupted, impure, and ultimately self-destructive. Ambassador Kosh wishes confirmation that the right people, are in the right place, at the right time."     - Lennier to Sheridan, "Comes the Inquisitor" "No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the Universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments, tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learnt this lesson once. We will teach it to them again and though it take 1000 years we will be free."     - G'Kar, "The Long Twilight Struggle" "From this place we will deliver notice to the parliments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness. And we will hold that line. No matter the cost."     - Sheridan, "The Long, Twilight Struggle" Keffer:      "But there's something out there!" Ivanova:   "Yes, there is. There's something out there. There's also something in here. That something in here is me giving you a direct order."     - "Confessions and Lamentations" "All life is transitory. A dream. We all come together in the same place at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you in a little while in the place where no shadows fall."     - Delenn to Sheridan, "Confessions and Lamentations" "You've been trying to help me so we can understand each other. That's not what I want any more. I want you to teach me how to fight them, how to beat them. Because sooner or later, I'm going to Z'ha'dum, and I'm going to stop them."     - Sheridan to Kosh, "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" "If this is the only way, then we will give you those answers, but be warned, once you know his secret, once you know what we have known for the last 3 years, you will never sleep well again. Come captain, the greatest nightmare of our time is waiting for you."     - Delenn to Sheridan, "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" "I want to live just long enough to be there when they cut your head off and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favours come at too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"     - Vir, "In The Shadow Of Z'ha'dum" "We have only one chance to stop them, and if we fail, billions will die."     - Ambassador Delenn, "In The Shadow Of Z'ha'dum" "Very soon now, I will be going into darkness and fire. I do not know if I am fated to walk out again. If it is your choice to come with me, then I could not wish for a better, or braver, companion."     - Delenn to Lennier, "All Alone in the Night" "The future now consists of only 3 probabilities. From the moment that I strike, the emperor and I will both die, or he will die and I will spend my life in prison. Or I will fail and be killed. For the first time in my life, the path is clear."     - G'kar, "The Coming of Shadows"
	"Listen:           'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;           Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,           The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere           The ceremony of innocence is drowned;           And what rough beast, its hour come round at last           Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'"     - G'Kar, "Revelations"
	Londo: "This is like being nibbled to death by .. um .. pah .. What are those Earth creatures called? Feather, long bill webbed feet, go quack?" Vir: "Cats." Londo: "Cats. I'm being nibbled to death by cats."     - "Chrysalis" "Mr Garibaldi, it's BIG!"     - a female tech in C&C, "A Voice in the Wilderness, part I" "What do you want?"     - Morden, "Signs and Portents" "You can look up.... I cannot have an aide who will not look up. You will be forever walking into things."     - Delenn to Lennier, "The Parliment of Dreams" Ivanova:   "What happened back then is not your fault. But it's part of what you are. And yet you're just as much of a victim as my mother was." Talia:        "I don't feel like a victim."     - "Midnight on the Firing Line" Londo:        "Just now, would you really have killed me?" Garibaldi:   "Yes. Yes, I would have. But I'm just as glad I didn't have to. The paperwork's a pain in the butt."     - "Midnight on the Firing Line" Londo:   "What reasonable explanation is there for the slaughter of unarmed civilians?" G'Kar:   "Curious. We wondered the same thing when you invaded our world."     - "Midnight on the Firing Line" "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."     - Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"