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Month of August quotes: (note, I will format these later --RC)

  • edit / "What you are asking could be considered treason."

"Or the first step in restoring our people to their rightful place in the galaxy. Depending on who writes the history books. I think it will be us."
—Londo and Lord Refa, The Geometry of Shadows

  • edit / "I have been attacked by aliens before, but never by dead ones." —Sheridan, Knives
  • edit / "Knock, knock."

"Who's there?"
"Kosh."
"Kosh who?"
"Gesundheit."
—Sheridan and Ivanova, A Race Through Dark Places

  • edit / "That's one cabinet that will never threaten us again."

"I'm sorry, I just...it's been one of those days."
—Talia and Ivanova, Divided Loyalties

  • edit / How many Minbari does it take to change a lightbulb?

I dunno, sir; How many Minbari does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. They always surrender before they finish the job, and they never tell you why...
Sheridan and Ivanova (S2E08, A Race Through Dark Places)

  • edit / "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 would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave...like this... Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?" (Vir Cotto, S2E17, In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
  • edit / "We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things -- the true secrets, the important things: Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever; seven words to make them go without pain; how to say goodbye to a friend who is dying; how to be poor; how to be rich; how to rediscover dreams the world has stolen from you." (Elric; S2E03, The Geometry of Shadows)
  • edit / "When a patient starts to slip away .. when he looks at you .. and his eyes grab hold of you the way a drowning man grabs hold of anything to keep him from sinking.. I mean, afraid .. so afraid .. and then, just at the last, it's as if they look past you to something else, and the look on their face, it's like nothing you can describe. And then .. just as they look past you, the moment that they look past you, you can't help but meet their gaze and, just for an instant, you see God reflected in their eyes. I've seen a lot of reflected Gods today, Susan...and I'm wondering how we can keep believing in them when they've stopped believing in us." (Franklin; S2E17, In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
  • edit / "...when you stumble a lot, you .. you start looking at your feet. We have to make people .. lift their eyes back to the horizon and see the line of ancestors behind us saying, 'Make my life have meaning.' And to our inheritors before us saying, 'Create the world we will live in.' I mean, we're not just holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is all about. Only by making people understand that can we hope to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity." (Sheridan; S2E14, And Now For a Word)
  • edit / "You were very funny. Everything to you was a problem to be solved, a test to be passed. But you know, Stephen, sometimes the test is not to find the answer. It's to see how you react when you realize there is no answer." (Lazarenn; S2E18, Confessions and Lamentations)
  • edit / "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; S2E19, The Long, Twilight Struggle)
  • edit / "These guys are about as subtle as a brick through a glass window, but they know their stuff. I'd hate to be on the wrong side with this bunch against me." (Garibaldi; S2E13, Hunter, Prey)
  • edit / "Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. The future isn't what it used to be." (G'Kar; S2E05, The Long Dark)
  • edit / It's a strange feeling, Kha'Mak, to know suddenly that all the decisions in your life have brought you to this place. There is no longer doubt or uncertainty. The future now consists of only three probabilities. .. In 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; S2E09, The Coming of Shadows)
  • edit / "Every day I get up, and I hope nothing will happen. I'd love to be just bored out of my skull for 24 hours, and...I guess I keep hoping that someday, somewhere I'll make a difference, that at the end of the day everything we've gone through here for the past few years will mean something." (Garibaldi; S2E14, And Now For a Word)
  • edit / "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; S2E22, The Fall of Night)
  • edit / "G'Quan spoke of a great war long ago, against an enemy so terrible it nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves. G'Quan said that before the enemy was thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known space. I searched for days, going from one system to another. Then, on dark deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living thing has walked in over thousand years, something is moving, gathering its forces, quietly, quietly, hoping to go unnoticed. We must warn the others, Na'Toth. After a thousand years, the darkness has come again." (G'Kar; S2E02, Revelations)
  • edit / "It's not as if anyone expects you to, oh, vanish overnight under mysterious circumstances to a strange Minbari post. Why, that would be unprecedented in the station's history." (G'Kar; S2E08, Soul Mates)
  • edit / "It has occurred to me recently that I have never chosen anything. I was born into a role that had been prepared for me. I did everything I was asked to do, because it never occurred to me to choose otherwise. And now, at the end of my life, I wonder what might've been." (Centauri Emperor Turhan; S2E09, The Coming of Shadows)
  • edit / "I'm here to sign a non-aggression treaty with the Centauri. Before I leave here there will be an Earth-Centauri alliance that will guarantee peace for Earth. We will, at last, know peace in our time." (Frederick Lantz; S2E22, The Fall of Night)
  • edit / "Six months ago they were hardly aware of me. Now, suddenly everyone is my friend, everyone wants something. I wanted respect. Instead I've turned to a wishing-well with legs." (Londo; S2E12, Acts of Sacrifice)
  • edit / "Their honor? We've had plenty of that ourselves. Conspiracies of silence because the larger ideals have to be protected. But you can't have larger ideals if the smaller ones get compromised." (Sheridan; S2E15, There All the Honor Lies)
  • edit / "Universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, but they are right. Wherever we are, it's the right place...and the right time. Pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being born." (Delenn; S2E04, A Distant Star)
  • edit / "Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because they can." (G'Kar; S2E14, And Now For a Word)
  • edit / "It was the end of the year 2259 and the war was upon us. As anticipated, a few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced, the Centauri widened their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds. And there was another war brewing closer to home. A personal one, whose cost would be higher than any of us could imagine.

"We came to this place, because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. By the end of 2259, we knew that it had failed. But in so doing it became something greater. As the war expanded, it became our last, best hope for victory, because sometimes peace is another word for surrender, and because secrets have a way of getting out." (Ivanova; S2E22, The Fall of Night)

  • edit / "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."
"I'll assume you knew that..."
(Ivanova and Sheridan S2E06, A Spider in the Web)

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