"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
-- Mae West
"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us.
And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible
in-between."
-- Centauri Emperor, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5)
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
-- Robert Anson Heinlein, "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"
"Do, or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda, "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back"
"The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
-- Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek, "Believers" (Babylon 5)
"Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool that follows him?"
-- Ben Obi Wan Kenobi, "Star Wars: A New Hope"
"The best things in history are accomplished by people who get `tired of being
shoved around.'"
-- Robert Anson Heinlein
"You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure where they'll point it.
Your mistake."
-- Cmdr Jeffery Sinclair, to Orin Zento, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5)
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?"
-- Ambassador Londo Molari (Babylon 5)
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
-- Publius Syrus