LONDO: There comes a time when you look into the mirror, and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors.
The universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy.
The universe considers me its personal cat toy.
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
So we're just in this maze for now, trying to figure out if that glint in the distance is daylight, or a Minotaur with an Uzi.
LONDO: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you.
LONDO: I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and shooting at one another. You would have thought sooner or later it'd go out of fashion.
SHERIDAN: Oh, now that is a lie!
DELENN: Minbari do not lie.
SHERIDAN: Well then it is slander.
DELENN: To be slander, it must be false. That's two down.
SHERIDAN: Well then it's damned inconvenient.
DELENN: The truth always is.
VIR: 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 want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
G'KAR: I prefer to be only slightly insane.
IVANOVA: Don't we all?
ELRIC: As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds — the sounds of billions of people calling your name.
LONDO: My followers?
ELRIC: Your victims.
G'KAR: By G'Quon I can't recall the last time I was in a fight like that! No moral ambiguity, no hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. They were the bad guys, as you say, and we were the good guys! And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor!
MARCUS: You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair; then I thought, 'Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happened to us come because we actually deserved them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
SEBASTIAN: Good luck to you in your "holy cause," Captain Sheridan. May your choices have better results than mine: remembered not as a messenger, remembered not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian. Remembered only as "Jack."
DELENN: In my experience, if you cannot say what you mean, you cannot mean what you say.
IVANOVA: I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside.
SINCLAIR: But in space, it's always dark.
IVANOVA: I know. I know.
IVANOVA: You're having delusions of grandeur again.
MARCUS: Well, if you're going to have delusions, you may as well go for the really satisfying ones.
ZATHRAS: Yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But at least there is symmetry.
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