President John Sheridan
"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, our last best hope for Earth.'"
- Sheridan: "Points of Departure"
"The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."
- Sheridan to Garibaldi: "The Geometry of Shadows"
"An old friend of mine once quoted me an ancient Egyptian blessing:
'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.'"
- Sheridan to Zeta Squadron: "A Distant Star"
"And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea."
- Sheridan: "A Distant Star"
"Give me a lever big enough and I will move the world."
- Sheridan: "All Alone in the Night"
"Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost."
- Sheridan to the Rangers: "A Long, Twilight Struggle"
"Punch it!"
- Sheridan: "Matters of Honor"
"Where does revenge end, and justice begin?"
- Sheridan: "Passing Through Gethsemane"
"Always plant a lie inside a truth, makes it easier to swallow."
- Sheridan: "Point of No Return"
"Well, when I joined Earthforce the sign said, 'greatest adventure of all.' If they only knew."
- Sheridan: "War Without End #I"
"Well as my great grandfather used to say, Cool!"
- Sheridan: "War Without End #I"
"When I look in her eyes, I let myself think, maybe I can really fly."
- Sheridan's log entry about Delenn: "Whatever Happened to Mr Garibaldi?"
"Tho' we are not now that strength which in old days"
"Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are"
"One equal temper of heroic hearts,"
"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will"
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
- Sheridan:"The Long Night"
"Giants in the Playground."
- Sheridan: "The Long Night"
"Win or lose, we'll go down fighting. Pour it on, Mr. Lennier.
Take us into the fire."
- Sheridan: "Into the Fire"
"A Vorlon said understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth."
- Sheridan: "Into the Fire"
"Good Morning, gentlemen. This is your wake-up call."
- Sheridan: "Into the Fire"
"Trouble will come in its own time. It always does, ... but that's tomorrow. Give me today and I will be happy."
- Sheridan: "Epiphanies"
"If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense,
you have a long wait ahead of you."
- Sheridan to Zack: "Conflicts of Interest"
"We have an open door policy."
"And an open air lock policy."
- Sheridan and Ivanova: "The Illusion of Truth"
"It's easy to come together for a common enemy. Now our job is to come together for a common goal."
- Sheridan: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
"All power to engines. Give me ramming speed."
- Sheridan: "Endgame"
"I find it amazing that you think that threats still mean anything to me.
'Do this or you're a dead man.' Death: been there, done that."
- Sheridan to Bester: "Rising Star"
"I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned
that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that
those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others.
We must assume responsibility for those consequences."
- Sheridan: "Rising Star"
"There's only one thing more dangerous than Mr. Garibaldi when he's loud.
.. It's when he's dead silent."
- Sheridan to Lochley: "Phoenix Rising"
"The giants have left the playground, but they left their guns behind."
- Sheridan: "The Fall of Centauri Prime"
"Well, look at that. The sun's coming up."
- Sheridan: "Sleeping in Light"
"Excuse me, I'm in the middle of fifteen things ... all of them annoying."
- Ivanova: "Midnight on the Firing Line"
"There is nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right."
- Ivanova to Sinclair: "Legacies"
"And just one more thing. On your trip back I'd like you to take the time
to learn the Babylon 5 mantra: 'Ivanova is always right. I will listen to
Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And
if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out.'
Babylon Control out. .. Civilians! [Looks up] I was just kidding about
the God part -- no offense."
- Ivanova: "A Voice in the Wilderness #1"
"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."
- Ivanova: "Points of Departure"
"All my life, I've fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly, I AM the expanding Russian frontier."
"But with very nice borders."
- Ivanova and Dr Franklin: "A Distant Star"
"Does the phrase 'no way in hell!' ring a bell?"
- Ivanova: "Divided Loyalties"
"If I live through this job, without losing my mind. It will be a miracle of biblical portions"
"Well there goes my faith in the Almighty."
- Ivanova and Tech #: "A day in the Strife"
"I don't want to get killed because of a typo, it would be embarrassing."
- Ivanova: "A Day in the Strife"
"Good luck, Captain. I think you are about to go where everyone has
gone before."
- Ivanova to Sheridan: "Voices of Authority"
"Great. Doesn't anything come under warranty anymore?"
- Ivanova: "War Without End #II"
Well, who wants to live forever?"
"I do, actually. But what the hell. Signal away."
- Ivanova and Marcus: "Shadow Dancing"
"You've been declared dead at least once and you know how tiring that can be."
- Ivanova to Sheridan: "Racing Mars"
Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov.
I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry
ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last
living thing that you're *ever* going to see. *God* sent me."
- Ivanova: "Between the Darkness and the Light"
"You still haven't told me when the commander is due back?"
"Soon."
"How soon is soon?"
"Longer than a little while, faster than later."
- Mary Ann Cramer and Garibaldi: "Infection"
"And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart:
Hot pink is definitely your color."
- Garibaldi to G'Kar: "The Parliament of Dreams"
"Ambassador Kosh has been a busy boy today."
"They say God works in mysterious ways."
"Maybe so, but He's a con-man compared to the Vorlon."
- Garibaldi and Sinclair: "Deathwalker"
Garibaldi: "No boom?"
Sinclair: "No boom"
Ivanova: "No boom*today*. Boom tomorrow. There's *always* a boom tomorrow!"
- Garibaldi, Sinclair, Ivanova: "Grail"
"Tea just happens to be my third favorite thing in the Universe."
- Garibaldi: "A Spider in the Web"
"Maybe somebody should've labeled the future: some assembly required."
- Garibaldi to Franklin: "Hunter, Prey"
"What do you mean, 100 credits?"
"I mean, more than 99, less than 101. What, do you have a hearing problem,
or a math problem? Look, I can't get into conceptual arguments with you,
I've got people waiting."
- Garibaldi and the mailman: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"
"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air,
mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?"
"Sorry, sir, that's not my department."
- Garibaldi to a Supervisor: "Grey 17 is Missing"
"You know, the one thing in life that you can be sure about is that you
are going to make mistakes."
- Garibaldi to Zack: "Epiphanies"
"Do know how the ancient Greeks defined happiness?"
"Not off hand, but I would willing to bet it involved three goats and a jug of wine."
"Happiness, they said, was the exercise of vital powers along the lines of excellence in a life affording them scope."
William Edgars and Garibaldi: "The Exercise of Vital Powers"
"Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure if I'm going to
get over being dead anytime soon."
- Garibaldi: "Between the Darkness and the Light"
"I'm the soul of discretion"
- Garibaldi: "Strange Relations"
"Now, just what part of No don't you understand?"
- Garibaldi: "In the Kingdom of the Blind"
"Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5."
- Commander Sinclair to Lyta Alexander: "The Gathering"
"If I may ask, what happened to my brother's collection?"
"Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them."
- Soul Hunter #2 and Sinclair: "Soul Hunter"
"What kind of *covert* operation?"
"That information is on a need-to-know basis, Commander.
And you don't need to know."
- Sinclair and Bester: "Mind War"
"You should never hand someone a gun unless you are sure
where they will point, and no mistake."
- Sinclair to Orin Zinto: "By Any Means Necessary"
"Hello, old friend."
- Sinclair to Delenn: "The Coming of Shadows"
"Stay close to the vorlon and watch out for Shadows. They move when you're not looking at them."
- Sinclair: "The Coming of Shadows"
"Good bye, old friend."
Sinclair to Garibaldi: "War Without End #I"
"Ready?"
"Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before you're going to do something massively unwise?"
"Tradition."
- Sinclair and Delenn: "War Without End #I"
"All my life, I have had doubts about who I am, where I belong. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear."
- Sinclair: "War Without End #1"
"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"
"Why don't you put a bag over your head and do it for
Babylon 5?"
- Franklin to Ivanova: "Acts of Sacrifice"
"I assume that you worked out that whole longitude-latitude thing.
I know you get confused sometimes."
"You're right, you're right. I keep mixing them up. .. I got it right.
Well, I *think* I got it right. Okay, fine. Which goes vertically,
longitude or latitude?"
- Franklin and Garibaldi: "Endgame"
"When this place was built, I think irony was of the primary materials used in construction."
- Franklin: "Objects in Motion"
"I look like I'm wearing a circus tent. Any minute now, a little teeny car with sixteen clowns in it is gonna flying out of my butt."
- Zack: "Voices of Authority "
"You know, Michael, you and the Minbari have one thing in common:
You never know when to leave something *alone*."
- Zack to Garibaldi: "Learning Curve"
"You seem awfully cranky, Michael. You've been taking your vitamins?"
- Zack to Garibaldi: "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"
"Hell, I'll probably still be here, when they turn off the lights."
- Zack: "Objects at Rest"
"A quarter million people coming and going. Every part of this station has somebody's finger prints on it, layers and layers of peoples lives."
- Zack: "Sleeping in Light"
"We did everything that we said we were going to do and nobody can take that away from us or this place."
- Zack: "Sleeping in Light"
"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: "Strange Relations"
"I'm caught in a web of my own good intentions."
"Well, the road to hell is paved with them, sir."
"I know, but why does it have to go through this office?"
- Sheridan and Lochley: "Strange Relations"
"And What's out there?"
"The rim."
"And behind that?"
"The truth."
- Lochley and Sheridan: "Objects at Rest"
