Babylon 5 Quotes

Galen: If sometimes dreams come true, then what of our nightmares?

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[Dureena extracts a data crystal from a Drazi skin pouch.]
Leonard Anderson: How do you know they have a pouch?
John Sheridan: Well. It's not a pouch... exactly... It's their reproductive area.
Leonard Anderson: Ugh, why did you have to tell me that? Hey, lady! Dureena! Listen! The only thing valuable I carry on me is my watch! I want you to know that in case that ever comes up in the future. Okay?

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Elizabeth Lochley: You're asking the impossible.
John Sheridan: Then I am asking the right person.

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[last lines of the episode]
John Sheridan: Those who command the Excalibur will never stop, never give up, and never slow down until a cure is found. And we'll take any help we can get. Wherever and whoever it comes from. Because this is a cause that surpasses borders and difference and distrust. This is a mission of about the survival of Earth itself. What we do over the next five years, here, at home, and across the darkness between the stars, will determine whether an entire world will live ... or die. It's a fight we can't afford to lose. And we won't ... We won't.

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Dulann: His concern was for us, not for himself. I know. I saw it in his soul.

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[The Liandra, 20 years old and somewhat in need of maintenance, is about to try to launch.]
Sarah Cantrell: Today's a good day to die.
David Martel: Oh, with you every day is a good day to die.

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[after the Liandra rescues a group of very annoyed diplomats from an alien raid, G'Kar attempts to calm them down]
G'Kar: Minister Kafta, this ship is being held together by little pieces of wire and good intentions. If we land in this condition, assuming we do not have an unpleasant encounter with the ground on the way down, I doubt very much they could take off again. They would be trapped with us, and the ship looking for them would find it, find them, find us, find you, a brilliant cascade of cause and effect. Isn't the universe a wonderful place? I wouldn't live anywhere else.

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[last lines]
G'Kar: [about to leave the Liandra for Babylon 5] It's quite a place. A place of good times and bad, of pain and growth, but in the end a place of great hope. But if you ever do come aboard, remember one thing: No one there is exactly what he seems. But then, who is?

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[While walking through the capitol city, the newly invested Emperor Londo Mollari was struck by a rock thrown by a young teenage girl, who proceeded to upbraid him for his failings in defense of the Centauri people.]
Londo Mollari: You are quite brave, do you know that?
[For a moment the girl seemed taken aback, and then she gathered herself.]
Girl: I'm not brave. I'm just too tired and hungry and angry to care anymore.
Londo Mollari: Perhaps they are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps bravery is simply apathy with delusions of grandeur.

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