Silly B5 Quote Conversation

[glindros]

"I mean, to me everything is a surprise. You're a surprise, this place is a surprise. You see this? Paper-cut, hurts like hell. Anybody else would be upset, but to me it's just one more wonderful surprise. I mean, I even surprise myself sometimes. Now, I guess there's nothing wrong me surprising you? Right?"

Sounds right. And now I have to go back to the Council and explain to them that in the interest of peace the Centauri government will agree to give quadrant 37 to the Narns. I think I will stick my head in the station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a while I might even come to enjoy it

[alpha128]

"Be careful, G'Kar. When the universe hears you say something like that, it tends to answer in the most surprising ways."

"I mean, to me everything is a surprise. You're a surprise, this place is a surprise. You see this? Paper-cut, hurts like hell. Anybody else would be upset, but to me it's just one more wonderful surprise. I mean, I even surprise myself sometimes. Now, I guess there's nothing wrong me surprising you? Right?"

[AstroBoy]

Unfortunately, while all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.

"Be careful, G'Kar. When the universe hears you say something like that, it tends to answer in the most surprising ways."

[phazedout]

Unfortunately, while all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.

[Jan]

"Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope that things will get better, that our inheriters will know a world that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless, and evolution is vastly overrated. Good day, Commander."

"I'll tell you right now, if the primates we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd've stayed up in the trees and written off evolution as a bad idea. Hell, I've always thought the opposable thumb was overrated."

[AstroBoy]

It was an early earth president, Abraham Lincoln, who best described our situation. 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, or last best hope for Earth.

"Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope that things will get better, that our inheriters will know a world that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless, and evolution is vastly overrated. Good day, Commander."

[glindros]

"A great lie. A pretty fantasy. The soul ends with death, unless react to preserve it."

It was an early earth president, Abraham Lincoln, who best described our situation. 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, or last best hope for Earth.

[Kraig]

"You don't understand. Food animals are cut open. They don't have a soul, so it's all right. But Chosen of God may not be punctured."

"A great lie. A pretty fantasy. The soul ends with death, unless react to preserve it."

[alpha128]

"The world condemned me but it didn't matter because I believed that I was right and the world was wrong, I believed I was the divine messenger, I believed I was -- "

"You don't understand. Food animals are cut open. They don't have a soul, so it's all right. But Chosen of God may not be punctured."

[Jan]

"I have been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all you had to do was to admit you were wrong and I was right and everything would've been fine"

"The world condemned me but it didn't matter because I believed that I was right and the world was wrong, I believed I was the divine messenger, I believed I was -- "

[glindros]

"Zathras understand. .. No. Zathras not understand, but Zathras do. Zathras good at doings, not understandings.."

"I have been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all you had to do was to admit you were wrong and I was right and everything would've been fine"

[AstroBoy]

"I don't like threats. And as long as I'm the law on BS, I intend to see that everyone is protected, human and alien alike. Understood?"

"Zathras understand. .. No. Zathras not understand, but Zathras do. Zathras good at doings, not understandings.."

[Jan]

"My blood is the same color as yours. And what I do, I do to protect Earth, same as you. You don't like how I do it, that's your prerogative. But there are things going on out there that you know nothing about. Threats to the human race that no one never hears about, because we stopped them. There are dangers all around us. And whether you like us or not, we may be all that stands between you and the abyss."

"I don't like threats. And as long as I'm the law on BS, I intend to see that everyone is protected, human and alien alike. Understood?"

[alpha128]

"Minbari: pale, bloodless."

"My blood is the same color as yours. And what I do, I do to protect Earth, same as you. You don't like how I do it, that's your prerogative. But there are things going on out there that you know nothing about. Threats to the human race that no one never hears about, because we stopped them. There are dangers all around us. And whether you like us or not, we may be all that stands between you and the abyss."

[AstroBoy]

"I heard a good one today. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"
"I don't know, sir. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"
"None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and they never tell you why."

"Minbari: pale, bloodless."