Silly B5 Quote Conversation

[glindros]

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 though which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation. We shall nobly save or meanly lose our last, best hope of Earth."

Well, just hope you don't wind up history.

[Distorted Humor]

Well, just hope you don't wind up history.

You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.

[ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN]

You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.

"I fight my own battles! I survived our war of independance, five years on the council and two prior assasination attempts. I can survive this."

[Jan]

"I fight my own battles! I survived our war of independance, five years on the council and two prior assasination attempts. I can survive this."

"But lately...I feel as if it's all falling apart. Everything's fraying at the edges Instead of trying to hold things together, it seems like everybody's grabbing the threads and pulling in a hundred different directions."

[AstroBoy]

"But lately...I feel as if it's all falling apart. Everything's fraying at the edges Instead of trying to hold things together, it seems like everybody's grabbing the threads and pulling in a hundred different directions."

"Oh, but I do understand. But that's what's got you worried, isn't it? A Vorlon said understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side .. and the truth. The truth is we don't need you anymore."

[ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN]

"For someone of other species to make such an accusation, it would require an immediate and fatal response from the accused."
"Then he is in .. error where the truth is involved and I want to speak with him now."

[glindros]

"For someone of other species to make such an accusation, it would require an immediate and fatal response from the accused."
"Then he is in .. error where the truth is involved and I want to speak with him now."

She said that you have been, in her words, carrying on 'cranky'.

[Jan]

She said that you have been, in her words, carrying on 'cranky'.

"Thank you, but I'd prefer to leave judgments on the state of my soul to someone a bit more qualified...and a little less loud."

[ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN]

"Thank you, but I'd prefer to leave judgments on the state of my soul to someone a bit more qualified...and a little less loud."

"There's only one thing more dangerous than Mr. Garibaldi when he's loud. .. It's when he's dead silent."

[AstroBoy]

"There's only one thing more dangerous than Mr. Garibaldi when he's loud. .. It's when he's dead silent."

"The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe, Luc Derardi. The loud ones only take the credit."

[ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN]

"And you don't want credit for this grand endeavour?"

[Jan]

"And you don't want credit for this grand endeavour?"

"I have little patience for the vagaries of politics and social climbing."

[ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN]

"I have little patience for the vagaries of politics and social climbing."

You picked a terrible moment in your social evolution to develop principles. Perhaps you can start with something simpler, the moral equivalent of the opposable thumb, for instance."

[glindros]

You picked a terrible moment in your social evolution to develop principles. Perhaps you can start with something simpler, the moral equivalent of the opposable thumb, for instance."

I see it as a blemish that will grow with time. I could warn you of course, but you would not listen. I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only thing I can, I go.

[ILUVJOHNSHERIDAN]

I see it as a blemish that will grow with time. I could warn you of course, but you would not listen. I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only thing I can, I go.

"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."