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From The Great Machine
Month of May quotes:
- edit / "No tyranny has ever really lasted. No government based on violence has endured. Sooner or later, they all fall. We're here to build a new life for ourselves, a home among the stars. Would you build a home on a foundation you knew would not last?" —Byron, Secrets of the Soul
- edit / "Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. I just recently found out. .. I don't have one. Have a very, very nice day, G'Kar." —Lyta, Darkness Ascending
- edit / "I've always said this about you: Nothing so improves your company like the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you." —Londo to G'Kar, The Ragged Edge
- edit / "Sh--Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little -- oh, that's a big drink -- about an hour ago and it went right to my head. .. What did I do .. with that link? You Linky, Linky, Linky? Here, Linky? Ow, the missing link!" —Garibaldi, Meditations_on_the_Abyss
- edit / "I said we had reason, not proof. We can't go public with what we suspect until we can prove their involvement." —Delenn to Lennier, Meditations on the Abyss
- edit / "You say you're doing this for a cause. What kind of sympathy you're gonna get by killing innocent people in cold blood? If you want to send a message, this ain't it." Garibaldi to telepaths, Phoenix Rising
- edit / "You don't have to solve every problem all at once. Problems are solved in pieces. If you're on the seventh floor of a burning building, you can either die or jump out the window. Once you're out the window, you're alive for another two seconds, during which time you figure out the solution to the next problem and so on and so on." —Lochley to Corwin in Strange Relations
- edit / "So .. When you were emperor, it meant something. Subduer of the Xon and the Shoggren. .. Now .. Ptttp! Anyone can be emperor. I can be emperor. Vir can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor, a small earth cat can be emperor. .. Come on. Talk to me. It's the day of the dead." —Londo, Day of the Dead
- edit / "There are moments when we all become someone else, something other than what we are. It takes only a moment, but we spend the rest of our lives looking back at that moment in shame." —Delenn, Objects at Rest
- edit / "Mollari .. understand .. that I can never forgive your people for what they did to my world. My people can never forgive your people. But I .. can forgive .. you." —G'Kar to Londo, The Fall of Centauri Prime
- edit / "I will not sleep, eat, drink, nothing! The words and I will be locked in mortal combat until one of us surrenders." —G'Kar to Sheridan, No Compromises
- edit / "Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. I just recently found out. .. I don't have one. Have a very, very nice day, G'Kar." —Lyta to G'Kar, Darkness Ascending
- edit / "Quarter million people, coming and going every day for 25 years. Every part of this station has somebody's fingerprints on it. Layers, and layers, people's lives." —Zack Allan to Sheridan, Sleeping in Light
- edit / "Besides, everyone knows the true source of pain is neither the hand nor the heart. It is the mouth. Is it not, Minister?" —G'Kar to Minister Vole, In the Kingdom of the Blind
- edit / "In war, these things happen. We are not at war. We do not strike first and we do not blow up cargo transports like pirates or barbarians." —Londo to Vir, And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
- edit / "And now, for those of you that have been archiving this ISN Special Documentary, the people responsible. Funding for this program was made possible by grants from the Anla'shok memorial fund." —Voiceover, Sleeping in Light
- edit / "I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station, when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone .. our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit .. that the part of me that is going .. will very much miss the part of you that is staying." —G'Kar to Sheridan, Objects in Motion
- edit / "At the moment of death, there is a passing of energy. An explosion of consciousness. It permeates everything in close proximity: your clothes, jewelry, .. anything. We can still feel him, .. what he was, .. what he did, .. his hopes, .. and fears, .. and expectations. It's still there for a few minutes. .. Then it will disappear. .. Joining him in silence." —Byron, A View from the Gallery
- edit / "The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is not Narn, or Human, or Centauri, or Gaim, or Minbari. It speaks in the language of hope."
"It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul. But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born. The small, still voice that says: 'We are one. No matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. .. We are one. No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. .. We are one.' Here, gathered together in common cause, we begin to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future. We are one."
—Sheridan/G'Kar, The Paragon of Animals
- edit / "You have to understand that your problem is not between you and me, you and your job, or any of that. Your problem is between you .. and you." (Sheridan to Garibaldi; S5E20, Wheel of Fire)
- edit / "I don't believe this. What is it with this place? I mean, last week someone tries to assassinate Sheridan, and now someone tries to poison Londo. My God! What is wrong with you people? Don't you have anything else better to do? Why don't you get a hobby? Read a book or something?" —Vir, The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
- edit / "That's why we're all here: to better understand one another and treat each other with sympathy and compassion, commodities which are all too often in short supply." —Franklin, Secrets of the Soul
- edit / "You are a source of constant annoyance to me, Turval, but only because you're right more often than you're wrong. And why should I keep this joy to myself? I choose to share you with the universe. Valen help them all." —Durhan to Turval, Learning Curve
- edit / "There's always somebody or something trying to be the most important thing in the world. No. Much as it might offend their sense of perspective, not everything is about Babylon 5." —Bester, The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father
- edit / "Who knew the could make such a .. stench .. Great Maker, I don't even want to think about it. I couldn't stay there a moment longer. And the smell's not the worst of it, it was the burning in my eyes. I think my buttons are melting." —Londo, Movements of Fire and Shadow
- edit / "Why is that we always break up our history by the .. the wars, not the years of peace? The Hundred Years' War, War of 1812, the first three world wars, the Dilgar War, the War of the Shining Star, the Minbari War, the Shadow War. Why the war and not the peace? Because it's exciting, and because on some level people like to see something big fall apart and explode from the inside out. And right now, John, we're that something." —Garibaldi to Sheridan, A Tragedy of Telepaths
- edit / "I've always said this about you: Nothing so improves your company like the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you." —Londo to G'Kar, The Ragged Edge
- edit / "Look, you have to understand she's a Minbari-Human hybrid. Things aren't gonna work the same."
"Wait. What are you talking about? What is wrong with her?"
"She's pregnant."
—Franklin and Sheridan, Wheel of Fire
- edit / "You see, Minbari humor is based not on physical danger or embarrassment or rejection, like human humor, but rather on the failure to obtain, uh .. emotional or spiritual enlightenment."
—Rebo to Sheridan, Day of the Dead
- edit / "It's not about teaching something, it's about unlearning hatred and unlearning fear. As a warrior, I cannot teach them these things. But you can."
—Ta'Lon to G'Kar, The Ragged Edge
- edit / "What does it taste like?"
"Hard to say, Bo. Um, kind of, um .. spooish, I guess."
"No. You're supposed to say chicken."
"Huh?"
"It's a joke. Whenever you eat something strange and someone asks, 'What does it taste like?' you're supposed to say chicken. It's funny that way."
"It doesn't taste like chicken."
—Bo and Mack, A View from the Gallery
