Jeffrey Sinclair quotes from Babylon 5

Catherine

Tennyson? Jeff, you've been caught on that one since the Academy! What's it take to drag you into the 23rd century?

Sinclair

We find meaning where we can.

Catherine

Ah, and which are you? "An idle king...doling unequal laws unto a savage race that hoard and sleep and feed and know not you"? Or, "this gray spirit, yearning in desire to follow knowledge like a sinking star"?

Sinclair

I didn't know you'd memorized it!

Catherine

I lived with you for a year. I didn't have much choice.

Jeffrey Sinclair

No, now's a fine time...

Sinclair

Get out...of my head! You want to talk to me, talk to me!

Alfred Bester

Apologies, Commander. It saves considerable time.

Sinclair

We never had a chance. You say we could have won, but you weren't there, you didn't see them! When I looked at those ships, I...I didn't just see my death -- I saw the death of the whole damn human race!

Then why did they surrender?!

Sinclair

I don't know! Maybe the universe blinked. Maybe God changed His mind. All I know is that we got a second chance!

Susan Ivanova

Well, I've managed to get the ship captains engaged in a debate over who has the best claim to Jha'dur. The winner will be the first to attack.

Jeffrey Sinclair

Creative.

Sinclair

They say God works in mysterious ways.

Michael Garibaldi

Maybe so. But He's a con man compared to the Vorlon.

Jeffrey Sinclair

Who asked you to play God?

Franklin

Every damn patient who comes through that door, that's who. People come to doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better...or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when their prayers aren't enough. Well, if I have to take the responsibility, then I claim the authority too. I did good. And we both know it. And no one is going to take that away.

Franklin

I'm waiting. For an apology.

Sinclair

You'd better check the temperature in Hell first.

Jeffrey Sinclair

Lieutenant Commander Ivanova, escort Major Kemmer off the Observation Dome.

Susan Ivanova

With pleasure. [to Kemmer] You are going to resist, I hope.

Sinclair

You're more trouble than a toilet full of snakes, but I couldn't run this station without you.

Michael Garibaldi

Commander, I sense a huge pay raise coming my way.

Sinclair

Hah. Dream on.

You are not the most popular person in government circles right now.

Sinclair

[unhappily] So what else is new?

Susan Ivanova

I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside.

Jeffrey Sinclair

But in space, it's always dark.

Ivanova

[morosely] I know. I know.

Jeffrey Sinclair

They say food tastes better if you chew it first.

Michael Garibaldi

Don't talk, I've seen you eat. Does the term "Doppler effect" ring a bell?

Sinclair

We've confiscated the fake encounter suit. It's a pretty close match to your own, at least from the outside.

Why?

Sinclair

Deuce wanted to make people think he had the Vorlons working for him. He figured it would add to his image and intimidate people.

Why?

Sinclair

Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like. That makes some people a little nervous.

Good.

Garibaldi

There he goes–Jinx-...Thomas.

Sinclair

Mm-hmm.

Susan Ivanova

You never did tell me what you think about that curse.

Sinclair

What curse?

Garibaldi

You know. That bit about if he leaves Babylon 5, the same thing that happened to Babylons 1, 2, 3 and 4 would happen to us.

Sinclair

Oh, that curse. You're not taking it seriously, are you?

Garibaldi

Me? No, of course not. You?

Sinclair

No.

Garibaldi

So, how long until he hits jump?

Ivanova

[working her console] Oh, right about...now!

Garibaldi

No boom?

Sinclair

No boom.

Ivanova

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.

Ivanova

What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM! [N]

Jeffrey Sinclair

Branmer's life was more significant than his battles. Let the warrior caste praise his courage in war, and let the rest praise him for what he truly was--a man of peace.

Neroon

You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your species survive.

Sinclair

We like to think so.