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DATAGIRL7'S COLLECTED B5 QUOTES PART 2 (A Distant Star through Messages from Earth)
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Great thanks to J. Michael Straczynski, the Great Maker of Babylon 5, who wrote these quotations.
It's rather rude, sir.
Rude?
Unless all your friends call you Swamprat.
Ah, that's an old nickname and a long story. I'll tell you about it sometime,
Ivanova and Sheridan, A Distant Star
Captain, I believe your friend Stinky has arrived.
Ivanova to Sheridan, A Distant Star
Here's a list of things I want you to try to avoid.
But I like all this stuff...especially... oh come on, not....doc, doc, doc, doc, there's nothing left.
Well, sure there is. Here. This is what you can eat. See all kinds of things.
OK. Fine. Diet.
No, no, no, no. Food plan.
Got it.
Mr. Garibaldi, you'll be needing these. And Mr. Garibaldi, I will be monitoring you, closely.
Dr. Franklin and Mr. Garibaldi, A Distant Star
Nothing can live in hyperspace.
What do you say captain.
Living, I don't know about that, Lieutenant. But there's something out there and it's stranger than any one of us can imagine.
Pilot and Lieutenant and Captain of the Cortez, A Distant Star
Understanding is not required, only obedience.
Delenn to Lennier, A Distant Star
"I'll gain weight!"
"Well, briefly, yes."
"Figures. All my life I've fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly I *am* the expanding Russian frontier."
"But with very nice borders."
Ivanova and Franklin, A Distant Star
I'll tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd've stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea. . . I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated.
Sheridan to Ivanova, A Distant Star
Look, uh, take those alien delegations and switch them around and see if you can smooth any ruffled feathers...Oh, refresh my memorty, does the Takati ambassador have feathers?
No, sir, I'll take care of it.
Sheridan and Ivanova, A Distant Star
S: What did you do with them?
G: I spaced 'em. no I made them give back all the stolen stuff and assigned them to community service.
I: Seems rather mild punishment.
G: Not if the community service is cleaning the garbage recycling unit.
Sheridan, Garibaldi and Ivanova, A Distant Star
S: This is all his fault you know.
G: Wait a minute.
I: I agree, this whole diet thing is your fault.
G: Food plan.
S & I: Whatever.
G: Well, what are we going to do about it?
[swap meals] [Dr. Franklin goes by] [swap back]
Sheridan, Garibaldi and Ivanova, A Distant Star
"Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective."
Delenn to Sheridan, A Distant Star
An old friend of mine once quoted me an ancient Egyptian blessing: 'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.' Bring the Cortez home."
Sheridan to Zeta Squadron, A Distant Star
"What else have I missed?"
"Oh. The usual. The good times, and the bad times, the revelations, the revolutions. Outbreaks of hysteria, the parade of scandals, promises, constitutions, and the occasional war. The last big ones were against the Dilgar, which we won, and against the Minbari, which.. Well, that's a long story."
Mariah Cirrus and Dr. Franklin, The Long Dark
Were you in the war?
No, I missed it.
He didn't.
How do you know.
I've had that same dream.
Garibaldi and GROPO's guard, The Long Dark
Lousy way to die, huh.
Last I checked there weren't to o many good ways.
Garibaldi and Sheridan, The Long Dark
F: She had nothing to do with his death.
S: How can you be sure?
F: Because she was with me last night, the whole night.
G: Moving kinda fast aren't you doc?
F: I don't sleep with my patients.
Dr. Franklin, Sheridan and Garibaldi, The Long Dark
X: She has brought something evil from the past, a soldier of darkens.
L: That is rich, nothing like a good ghost story, eh?
G: Let him speak, I find this very interesting, go on.
X: The faces of darkness do not move openly, they work through others, use other. When the darkens was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid themselves away in secret places and waited. Not the dark hand is reaching out and recalling them from their sleep.
S: And you think this woman is one of these soldiers of darkness.
X: Evil sometimes wears a pleasant face.
Delegate, Londo, G'Kar and Sheridan regarding Mariah, The Long Dark
Something's going on Commander.
I know, and between you an me it's scaring the hell out of me
Sheridan and Ivanova, The Long Dark.
"Well, you know how I feel about telepaths."
"Do I ever. You threw one out of a third story window on Io."
"There was an ample pool below the window."
"Alas, I assume you knew that."
Ivanova and Sheridan, Spider in the Web
You hurt that lady, and I'll see it takes you 10 days to die.
Garibaldi to Abel about Talia, Spider in the Web
"What's he hiding, Vir? Tell me. I won't bite, Vir."
"With all due respect, Madame, that's not what I've heard."
"All right, that one time."
"Twice."
Timov and Vir, Soul Mates
"You seriously expect me to become involved in your sexual olympics?"
"They are merely expressing their feelings for me."
"I can do that." [slaps Londo in the face]
"You haven't changed."
"You have. You've devolved."
Timov and Londo, Soul Mates
"We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs."
"Gogs?"
"Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that we never take ourselves too seriously."
Delenn and Sheridan, A Race Through Dark Places
"...Hardly the description of a monster."
"Smooth. You're getting good at this. Keep working on it. One of these days I might even be convinced that you're human."
Bester and Garibaldi, A Race Through Dark Places
"No regrets then?"
"A few. But just a few. You?"
"Oh, enough to fill a lifetime. So much has been lost, so much forgotten. So much pain, so much blood. And for what, I wonder. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible inbetween. But there is still time to cease that one last fragile moment. To choose something better, to make a difference, as you say. And I intend to do just that."
Centauri Emperor and Sheridan, The Coming of Shadows
"Mollari. What did he say, really?"
"He said .. that we are both damned."
"Well. It's a small enough price to pay for immortality."
Lord Refa and Londo, The Coming of Shadows
F: I had an Alfredo Garibaldi uner my command during the Dilgar Invasion. Execllent soldier.
G: That was my dad.
F: So much for genetics.
General Franklin and Garibaldi, GROPOS
"We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a .. bright future, we must learn to break those chains."
Delenn, GROPOS
Nice butt.
Private "Dodger" Durber of Garibaldi, GROPOS
"Summoned, 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."
Delenn, All Alone in the Night
I: Shhh.. Do you know who I am?
G: The man inbetween is searching for you.
I: You are the hand.
S: Why are you here?
K: We were never away. For the first time your mine is quiet enough to hear me.
S: Why am I here?
K: You have always been here.
Ivanova, Garibaldi, Sheridan and Kosh, All Alone in the Night
"It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if, maybe, only for a little while?"
"Even if only for a little while."
Londo and Garibaldi, Acts of Sacrifice
Well, you could put a bag over your head and do it for B5 . . . maybe not.
I'm doomed.
Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, Acts of Sacrifice
Michael, you ever consider climbing out fo the barracks sometime and looking around at the world?
Yeah, I will when people stop shooting at me.
Franklin and Garibaldi, Hunter, Prey
I don't believe anybody.
What a wonderful world you live in.
Yeah, well th rent is cheap, the payis decent and I get to make my own hours.
Garibaldi and Franklin, Hunter, Prey
I don't give out names, it's bad for business.
Yeah, well so is having your eyeballs spooned out and served on toast. Now make up your mind and make it up fast because it's getting awfully close to my breakfasttime.
Vendor and Garibaldi, Hunter, Prey
Hey , Max, give me the data crystal.
I dont' know what ou're talking about.
Look, I dont' have time for this. because I'm having a really bad day and I'm in a really bad mood. In fact, I'm doamn cranky. So why dont' you give me the fragging data crystal before I start to get surly which is something that you really, really, really dont' want.
I want to know why I was not told about the internal scanners before and how long it will take to interface it with our stystem now that I do know.
A, you didn't ask, B, we odnt' know the systems are compatible, C, assuming they are, 2.3 hours, D, at an early age sometone shou'd've told you you'd attract a lot more flies with honey than with vineagar, Sir.
Mr Kransten and Ivanova, Hunter, Prey
So you wanted to see me?
So you wanted to see me?
Well, I guess everybody does, to see what you really are inside that Encounter Suit
They are not ready, they would not understand.
Am I ready?
No. You do not even understand yourself.
Could you help me to understand you?
Could you help me to understand you?
Well, I can try. Is that what you want, an exchange of information. I tell you something about me and you tell me something about you.
No. you do not understand. Go.
Dammit, what do you want? What do you want from me? You know, ever since I got here I had the feeling that .. that you've been watching me. The record shows you hardly ever went to council meetings until I showed up. When I was captured, it was you .. reached out and .. touched my mind. Now you call me here. Why? Just to throw me out? Are we just toys to you, huh? What do you want?
Never ask that question.
At least I got a response out of you. So, what'll it be, Ambassador?
I will teach you.
About yourself?
About you. Until you are ready.
For what?
To fight legends.
Sheridan and Kosh, Hunter, Prey
You know, it was strange, while I was asleep, the . . the ship it . . . it sang to me.
Dr. Jacobs, Hunter, Prey
Until next time, Captain.
There's always a next time, isn't there?
You better pray it stays that way, Captain, because as long as there's a next time at least they're a change we'll win because in this war we need all the chances we can get.
?? and Sheridan, Hunter, Prey
"It's a mockery. It doesn't even have any .. ahhem .. attributes."
"Attributes?"
"Do I have to spell it out for you?"
Londo and Sheridan, There All the Honor Lies
"Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valueable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because they can."
G'Kar, And Now For a Word
"What do you want?"
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange it for me, Mr. Morden?"
Morden and Vir, In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless. Taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim, created great empires, but to all things, there is an end. Solely, over a million years, First Ones went away. Some passed beyond the stars never to return. Some simply disappeared."
Delenn, In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
"The blood is already on my hands. Right or wrong, .. I must follow the path .. to its end."
Londo, Knives
"Don't look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall."
Delenn, Confessions and Lamentations
"I have been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all you had to do was to admit you were wrong and I was right and everything would've been fine."
Ivanova to Talia Winters, Divided Loyalties
"Mass drivers! They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!"
"These are uncivilized times."
"We have treaties."
"Ink on a page."
Londo and Refa, The Long, Twilight Struggle
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies can not stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."
G'Kar, The Long, Twilight Struggle
"Mr. Garibaldi. I have been on this station long enough to know that you don't ask leading questions unless you already know the answers. So, why don't we just pretend I've lied about it, you've caught me in your web of insufferable logic and cut to the point."
G'Kar to Garibaldi, Comes the Inquisitor
"I apologize. I'm .. sorry. I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell. .. As with everything else, it's the thought that counts."
Sheridan, The Fall of Night
"The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. .. It failed. .. But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope .. for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5."
Ivanova, Season 3 Opening monologue in Matters of Honor
"I'm not authorized for that kind of information."
"But you are the head of security."
"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."
Garibaldi and David Endawi, Matters of Honor
"God goes by many names, perhaps some alien sounding, different faces, and history, but all describing the same Creator. We've come here to learn all those names, in hopes of better understanding the One who's behind them."
Brother Theo to Ivanova, Convictions
"There, you see! I'm going to live."
"So it would seem. Well, it's an imperfect universe."
"Bastard."
"Monster."
"Fanatic."
"Murderer."
"You are insane!"
"And that is why we'll win."
"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they say. Will be an *easy* assignment. Ah, I hate my life."
"So do I."
"Shut up!"
Londo and G'Kar, Convictions
"So is that what it's about, pride? It's not enough that we have beaten them, we have to break them?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, I thought you understood that. I don't want our people to go through this again in another hundred years. There's a way things are done, Vir, nothing personal."
Vir and Londo, A Day in the Strife
"I want to protect you."
"I don't want to be protected!"
"Well, I'm afraid it's not your decision. It's already done. You've been promoted. You'll earn more money, receive more attention, women may even come to find you attractive .. in time."
Londo and Vir, A Day in the Strife
"We are the universe, trying to understand itself."
Delenn, Passing Through Gethsemane
"Good luck, Captain. I think you are about to go where everyone has gone before."
Ivanova, Voices of Authority
"With our basic freedom in stake, no response can be too extreme. There maybe some minor and *temporary* abridgments in the traditionally protected areas, such as speech and association, but only until this crisis is over."
Julie Musante, Voices of Authority
"I will not support murder. We can not kill him."
"Can we wound him? Just a little?"
Franklin and Ivanova, Dust to Dust
"Decorative, and soft. Probably out to impose their views on everyone else."
"But their cities are thousands of years old."
"The lack of new construction is a sure sign of a faltering economy. This could make them very aggressive."
"They are deeply spiritual people, Londo."
"That you can leave in. It always scares people."
Vir and Londo, Dust to Dust
"What is there left for Narn if all of creation falls around us? There's nothing. No hope, no dream, no future, no life. Unless we turn from the cycle of death toward something greater. If we are a dying people, then let us die with honor, by helping the others as no-one else can."
"I can't understand."
"Because you have let them distract you. Blind you with hate. You cannot see the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another, we must realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because, if we fail in this, then none of us will be saved. And the Narn will be only a memory."
Narn Image and G'Kar, Dust to Dust
"Hi! Something I can help you with?"
"I don't know, I was thinking .. flowers."
"Thinking flowers is good, giving flowers is better. What's the occasion?"
"I'm not sure, but I think I have a date."
"She asked you out?"
"She asked me in, her place."
"Works fast. Is she agressive?"
"You could say that."
"Hah. Lucky guy."
"It's not like that. Well, it's not like that yet. .. I think."
Flower salesman and David Corwin, Exogenesis
"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 leaves 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
"Unfortunately, while all answers are replies, not all replies are answers"
Ta'Lon, Point of No Return
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