Template:Quote of the Day/03

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Month of March quotes:

  • edit / "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; S3E01, Matters of Honor)
  • edit / "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 the Republic, hundreds of servants would change a thousand lightbulbs at our slightest whim." (Londo; S3E02, Convictions)
  • edit / "According to legend, some went to sleep in secret places, deep beneath their ancient cities, where no one can bother them. The rest walk among the stars, on errands we never hope to understand, barely aware of our existence." (Delenn; S3E04, Voices of Authority)
  • edit / "A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving the body from one place to another." (Lennier; S3E06, Dust to Dust)
  • edit / 'The problems of others are not our concern.' I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war. If the warrior caste will not fight, then the rest of us will. If the Council has lost its way, if it will not lead, if we have abandoned our covenant with Valen, the Council should be broken, as was prophesied! (Delenn to Grey Council; S3E10, Severed Dreams)
  • edit / "Captain. If I were you, I would quit while I was ahead. Back on Minbar, there was a saying among the other Rangers. Only way to get a straight answer from Ranger One was to look every reply in a mirror while hanging upside-down from the ceiling."

"Did it work?"
"Oddly enough, yes. Or, after a while you passed out and had a vision. Either one, the result was pretty much the same."
(Marcus and Sheridan; S3E16, War Without End, part 1)

  • edit / "The Rangers were here because he was here. Where you are, the Rangers will be. We are coming into a critical time, Delenn, they will need you. Please, say 'yes'." (Rathenn to Delenn; S3E19, Grey 17 Is Missing)
  • edit / "The others have gone to speak with their governments. They have authorized me to speak in their place. .. You will have all the ships we can spare, Delenn. I only hope that you are right, because it will cost us greatly, if you are wrong." (Drazi League member to Delenn; S3E21, Shadow Dancing)
  • edit / "We've spent too much time reacting when we should have been acting. Let's take the offensive for a change. Fire up the shuttle, Commander, we've got work to do." (Sheridan; S3E01, Matters of Honor)
  • edit / "I did what I did because all life is sacred. But when the object of your actions does not share that belief.. I fear I have served the present by sacrificing the future." (Lennier; S3E02, Convictions)
  • edit / "If I live through this job .. without completely losing my mind, it will be a miracle of biblical proportions."

"Well, there goes my faith in the Almighty."
(Ivanova and Lt. Corwin; S3E03, A Day in the Strife)

  • edit / "Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!" (Delenn; S3E10, Severed Dreams)
  • edit / "We have unfinished business between us, G'Kar. Let us make an end of it, quickly, before it stops me. I am as tired of my life as you are." (Londo; S3E17, War Without End, part 2)

"I don't read Narn."
"Learn."
(G'Kar and Garibaldi; S3E04, Voices of Authority)

  • edit / "You know, if this keeps up, I'm gonna start thinking that people around here .. just don't like me." (Bester; S3E14, Ship of Tears)
  • edit / The next time .. the next time .. you want a revelation .. could you possibly find a way .. that isn't .. quite so .. uncomfortable?" (Marcus to Neroon; S3E19, Grey 17 Is Missing)
  • edit / "Humans have a phrase: 'What is past, is prologue.' Minbari also have a phrase: 'What is past, is also sometimes the future.'" (Delenn; S3E22, Z'ha'dum)
  • edit / "Then we heard it. .. A sound that just reaches right into your brain and rips it apart. .. The sound of something terrible being born." (Dr. Mary Kirkish; S3E08, Messages from Earth)
  • edit / "When it is time, come to this place, call our name, we will be here" (Walkers of Sigma 957; S3E04, Voices of Authority)
  • edit / "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; S3E19, Grey 17 Is Missing)
  • edit / "These ships, once they target you, they never stop, never slow down, never give up, until they have destroyed you. They are nearly invincible." (Delenn; S3E01, Matters of Honor)
  • edit / "Well, if I project a beam of light at the wall, you see the light on the wall, but the wall is not the source of the light. It comes in from somewhere else. The soul is also a projection. It does not exist inside us any more than the light exists inside the wall. But this .. shell is the only way we can perceive it." —Lennier, Passing_Through_Gethsemane
  • edit / "And here: 'The Minbari put great emphasis on art, literature and music.' Say instead: 'They are decadent people, interested only in the pursuit of .. of dubious pleasures.' Dubious-part is very important. It doesn't mean anything, but it scares people every time. All right?" —Londo, Point_of_No_Return
  • edit / "With everything that has been going around here lately he just needed to get out a little, stretch his legs a bit, so he took a walk. Outside. On the forward cargo stabilizers." —Garibaldi to Ivanova about Sheridan, Walkabout
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