Guinan quotes from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Picard

I wonder if the Emperor Honorius watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill could truly realize that the Roman Empire was about to fall. This is really just another page of history, isn't it? Will this be the end of our civilization? Turn the page.

Guinan

(gently) This isn't the end.

Picard

You say that with remarkable assuredness.

Guinan

With experience. When the Borg destroyed my world, my people were scattered throughout the Universe. We survived. As will humanity survive. As long as there's a handful of you to keep the spirit alive, you will prevail...even if it takes a millennium.

What is that?!

Guinan

Just a little souvenir I picked up on Makus III. That was setting number one. Anyone want to see setting number two?

Guinan

Am I disturbing you?

Ensign Ro

Yes.

Guinan

Good. You look like someone who wants to be disturbed.

Guinan

I believe truth is in the eye of the beholder.

Ensign Ro

Isn't that supposed to be beauty?

Guinan

Truth, beauty, works for a lot of things.

Ro

You're not like any bartender I've met before

Guinan

And you're not like any Starfleet officer I've met before. But that sounds like the beginning of a very interesting friendship.

Ro

I don't stay anywhere long enough to make friends.

Guinan

Too late. You just did.

Guinan

No, it's a Samalian coral fish with its fin unfolded.

Data

I believe what you are seeing is the effect of the fluid dynamic processes inherent in the large scale motion of rarefied gas.

Guinan

No, no. First it was a fish and now it's a Mentonian sailing ship.

Data

Where?

Guinan

Right there. Don't you see the two swirls coming together to form the mast?

Data

I do not see it. It is interesting that people try to find meaningful patterns in things that are essentially random. I have noticed that the images they perceive sometimes suggest what they are thinking about at that particular moment. Besides, it is clearly a bunny rabbit.

Guinan

You were on one of the most beautiful planets in the entire quadrant, and you spent the entire time in a cave?

Picard

(nodding happily) It was a very rewarding experience. Look at these fragments! They're very nearly in perfect condition, and yet they're seven hundred years old.

Guinan

So's my father.

Ro

This is the first time these Jefferies tubes haven't seemed cramped.

Guinan

How much farther do we have to go?

Ro

About fifty metres. Don't tell me you're tired.