DATAGIRL7'S COLLECTED B5 QUOTES PART 3 (Point of No Return through Current)

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Great thanks to J. Michael Straczynski, the Great Maker of Babylon 5, who wrote these quotations.

"I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate intelligence."
"Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics."
Vir and Londo, Point of No Return

"I believe that I have been touched. That I am meant for something greater. A greater darkness or a greater good, I can no longer say. All I have ever wanted is to serve our people. I need to see what is before me. If I should escape it, or embrace it. If there is any longer a choice."
"There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with the decision we have already made. If you understand that, there's hope. If not .."
Londo and Lady Morella, Point of No Return

"You must understand, Ta'Lon, I have had a revelation."
"What kind of revelation ?"
"Most profound and substantial one, Ta'Lon. The kind of revelation that transforms your mind, .. your soul, .. your heart, .. even your flesh. So that you are a new creature. We born in the instant of understanding."
G'Kar and Ta'Lon, 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."
"I .. don't understand."
"The future reveals itself only reluctantly, Ambassador. Take the sign for what it is. Look for it when it appears."
"I will, thank you."
Lady Morella and Londo, Point of No Return

"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, .. or be destroyed."
"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
"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."
Delenn and Captain Drake, Severed Dreams

"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."
"We can handle it. Our resources are greater than you think."
Londo and Lord Refa, Ceremonies of Light and Dark

"Oh, Londo, you are a fool. You walk away from the greatest power I have even seen, and now you expect me to do the same. They are the key to my eventual rise to the throne. Why would I abandon them?"
"Because I have asked you. And because your loyalty to our people should be greater than your ambition. And because I have poisoned your drink."
Lord Refa and Londo, Ceremonies of Light and Dark

"I'm already attending to my past, my present and what remains of my future. I do not require your assistance. Or your approval. Enjoy your ceremony, Delenn. I intend to have other plans."
Londo to Delenn, Ceremonies of Light and Dark

"Hello Delenn. Now, I was thinking, you couldn't come to the ceremony, the ceremony should come to you. I've given up something that really mattered to me, the uniform and everything that goes with it. I've never told anyone before now.. When you were hurt, when you were in my arms, I was ready to kill that guy with my bare hands. I realized I have never told you how much I cared about you, how much you mean to me. I think it's time you knew that. I can no longer imagine my world .. without you in it. I don't .. know exactly when or how it happened, .. but I'm glad it did."
Sheridan to Delenn, Ceremonies of Light and Dark

"And how are things at the royal court?"
"You know, collusion, politicking, scheming, innuendo, gossip. The same old thing."
Londo and Vir, Sic Transit Vir

"There were other women, but I never got past one."
"You mean first base."
"No, no, I mean one. You see, we have six a .. we have six, you see, and each one is a different level of intimacy and pleasure. So, you know, first you have one, and that's naa-naa. Then there's two .. and by the time you get to five it's ..."
"All I can say is that enthusiasm, sincerity, genuine compassion, and humor can carry you through any .. lack of .. prior experience with .. high numerical value."
"Wow, I'm gonna remember that. Thank you, thank you."
Vir and Ivanova, Sic Transit Vir

"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, Ranger to Franklin, A Late Delivery from Avalon

"You know the real reason you don't like me, Commander ? It's the jealousy of evolution. Normals like you are obsolete. The future belongs to telepaths .. and I intend to make sure that future happens. One way or another."
"But we can't be on top if the aliens get there first and some of them have. Through Clarke they infiltrated the Psi-Corp. And apparently they have their own plans for my telepaths. Whoever these aliens are, they are interfering with my plans for the future. I won't have it! And so, I need someone who feels the same way I do. .. Which brings me to you. You'd like to hurt them, Commander ? Because I think I know how. If you are up for it.
Bester to Ivanova, Ship of Tears

"'Some must be sacrificed for all to be saved.' First I took that as a revelation for the future. Now I see that it is as much about how we got here as about where we are going. I think that one sentence is the greatest burden I have ever known."
"You are right, nothing would've been changed. Except that my people would now be a dead race."
"You have come a long way, G'Kar. Further than I would've guessed. Sheridan's promise binds me as well it does him. We will take you into the Council, G'Kar. And someday, when all this is over, perhaps you will find it in your heart to forgive me."
"Perhaps, but not today."
G'Kar and Delenn, Ship of Tears

"I've got it. I've got it. I've got it. It's right here. It's right here."
"Do not thump the book of G'Quon. It is disrespectful."
Garibaldi and G'Kar, Ship of Tears

"You can never go wrong with garters. .. Hmm, you might."
Vendor to Vir, Interludes and Examinations

"Anything I can do to help?"
"Hmm. Short of dying, no, can't think of a thing."
Morden and Vir, Interludes and Examinations

"It is not yet time."
"And who decides that time? You? You put me in this position, you asked me to fight this damn war. Well, it's about time you let me fight it my way."
Kosh and Sheridan, Interludes and Examinations

"My associates need a voice and an ear in the Centauri royal court. If you violate the terms of our agreement, my associates may turn their eye toward your homeworld."
"Then, we shall pluck it out."
"If you put yourself between us and our objectives, you may come to regret it."
"There is nothing you can do to me, Mr. Morden, ...that has not already been done. Good day."
Morden and Londo, Interludes and Examinations

"There you are. Being very honored to meet you. I'm being called.."
"Zathras. We've met before on Babylon 4."
"No. .. Zathras does not.."
"It was my past, your future. Zathras, this is very important. When you meet me again, it will be me, but it won't be me now. So, you are not say anything that may change the past. Do you understand?"
"Zathras understand. .. No. Zathras not understand, but Zathras do. Zathras good at doings, not understandings. Zathras honored to meet you for many reasons."
Zathras and Sinclair, War Without End, Part I

"Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry. Go, go, Zathras take care."
Zathras, War Without End, Part I

"My life is almost over. My world, all I hoped for, gone. You two are my last chance, for this place, for my people, for my own redemption. There is a ship, hidden behind the palace, my guard will take you there. In exchange for your lives, all I ask is that you and your allies help to free my people. I can do nothing more for them."
Londo to Sheridan and Delenn, War Without End, Part II

"No-one ever listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that Zathras does not mind. He's even grown to like it. Oh yes."
Zathras, War Without End, Part II

"What guarantees will you give me that the crews will not open fire on a Centauri vessel as it approaches Babylon 5 ?"
"It's the same guarantee I gave when I said that none of the other Narns would break into your quarters in the middle of the night and slit your throat."
"Mr. Garibaldi, you have never given me that promise."
"You're right. Sleep tight."
Londo and Garibaldi, Walkabout

"Of course he doesn't! It's easy to fight when you've got a lot of ships to work with. The real crunch comes when you are down to almost nothing. Then you either play it safe and you probably lose it all or you take a chance. After everything we've been through with your people, Sheridan was crazy to send our pilots out to fight for your ship. They didn't want to go, they didn't want to get blown out of the sky and leave B5 defenseless, and they sure as hell didn't want to die. But they did it because Sheridan *told* them to do it, and because it was right."
"This time it is possible he could be wrong."
"Yeah, it's possible. But you don't follow an order because you know for sure it's gonna work out. You do what you are told, because your CO has the moral authority that says you may not come back. But the cause is just, and fair, and necessary. That's why Sheridan is out there, and dammit, that's where the cruiser should be too! It's not Na'kal's decision, G'Kar, he doesn't see the big picture. You do, so in my book, and your book, that makes it your responsibility. Deal with it!"
Garibaldi and G'Kar, Walkabout

"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?"
Garibaldi, Grey 17 is Missing

"I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no-one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One."
Marcus to Neroon, Grey 17 is Missing

"Denn Shar, you said. To the death. And death there was. The death was mine. To see a human invoke the name of Valen, be willing to die for one of my kind when I was intent upon killing one of my own, the rightness of my cause disappeared. Strange, that a human in his last moments should be more of a Minbari than I. Perhaps it is true what Delenn said. That we are not of the same blood, but we are of the same heart."
"The next time .. the next time .. you want a revelation .. could you possibly find a way .. that isn't .. quite so .. uncomfortable?"
Neroon and Marcus, Grey 17 is Missing

"Londo, they could've killed me." "Nonsense, you are not important enough to kill."
Vir and Londo, And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place

"'May gods stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.'"
Ivanova speaking for Sheridan, Shadow Dancing

"Hey, come on Chief, it's not your fault. I heard what happened. You offered to help, he walked away."
"Yeah, I know, but the thing is: sometimes people walk away because they want to be alone, and sometimes they walk away because they want to see if you care enough to follow them into hell. I think I went the wrong way."
Zack and Garibaldi, Shadow Dancing

"The Vorlons are like your parents, I suppose. They want you to play nice, clean your room, do it by the rules. I guess you could call them Lords of Order."
"The others, the ones who live here, believe that strength only comes from conflict. They want to release our potential, not bottle it up."
"It's really simple. You bring two sides together. They fight. A lot of them die, but those who survive are stronger, smarter and better.
Justin and Anna Sheridan, Z'ha'dum

"It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments .. of revelation. This had the feeling of both."
"G'Quon wrote: There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of ctransition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always paved in pain."
G'Kar, Season 3 ending in Z'ha'dum"

Lennier: It was the year of fire.
Zack: The year of destruction.
G'Kar: The year we took back what was ours.
Lyta: It was the year of rebirth.
Vir: The year of great sadness.
Marcus: The year of pain.
Delenn: And the year of joy.
Londo: It was a new age.
Franklin: It was the end of history.
Ivanova: It was the year everything changed.
Garibaldi: The year is 2261.
Sheridan: The place, Babylon 5.
Babylon 5 Main Cast, Season 4 Opening in The Hour of the Wolf

"Minister, I have met Cartagia three times before, twice when he was an infant. He drooled most of the time, I wonder if he's continued the habit, and again when he was 15 trying to peek up the dresses of some young women. I promise you, I will be just as impressed by him now as I was then, yes?"
Londo and Minister, The Hour of the Wolf

"Ah, Mollari. It's wonderful to see you again."
"And you, Majesty. I could swear you have not changed since the last few times I saw you."
"Oh, you are of course too generous."
Emperor Cartagia and Londo, The Hour of the Wolf

"Our thoughts form the universe, they always matter."
G'Kar, The Hour of the Wolf

"What are a few million lives compared to the glory of becoming a living god?"
Emperor Cartagia, The Hour of the Wolf

"Is there something wrong?"
"Something: no. Everything: yes. Conspiracies require more than one person. And there's no-one here I trust. Come quickly, Vir, we have much to do."
Vir and Londo, The Hour of the Wolf

"Words have meaning and names have power."
Lorien, Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?

"I was doing fine until you showed up with that .. thing in hand."
"It's a Minbari fighting pike, several hundred years old. You are just jealous because you don't have one. Bad case of pikal envy, if you ask me."
G'Kar and Marcus, Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?

"You didn't ask the price .. for my co-operation."
"You are not exactly in a position to bargain, G'Kar."
"Neither are you. You want my help .. for the sake of your people. I will give it .. for the sake of my own. If I remove the monster from your throne, you will remove the monster .. from my world. Leave Narn, set my world free. Promise me this, and I will do as you ask."
"You have my word."
G'Kar and Londo, Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?

"Captain, we're sorry. We thought you were dead."
"I was. I'm better now."
Drazi spokesman and Sheridan, The Summoning

"You heard?"
"I heard."
"They need to believe."
"Not in me."
"You can't save them all."
"I'll try."
"You'll fail."
"We'll see."
Lorien and Sheridan, Falling Toward Apotheosis

"He was gravely wounded at Z'ha'dum. He was dying. He was dead. I did all I could to help him, but I can not create life, only the universe can do that. I can extend, enhance, there is no magic, nothing spiritual about it, only the application of energies, healing and rebuilding cells."
Lorien, Falling Toward Apotheosis

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 happened 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

I swear, if he wasn't the captain, I'd shoot him dead.
Ivanova, Lines of Communication

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