Zitate und Sprüche von Benjamin Lafayette Sisko

Running may help for a little while, but sooner or later the pain catches up with you. And the only way to get rid of it is to stand your ground and face it.

Even in the darkest moments, you can always find something that will make you smile.

Kira: "I suppose you want the office."
Sisko: "I thought I'd say hello first, and then take the office. But we can do this in any order you like."

It's life, Jake! You can miss it if you don't open your eyes.

Part of being a captain is knowing when to smile, to make the troops happy. Even when it's the last thing in the world you want to do. Because they're your troops, and you hve to take care of them.

I've lived seven lifetimes, and I have never had a friend quite like you.

Commander, laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassians one day, Federation the next... but justice is justice.

Just because we don't understand a life form doesn't mean that we can destroy it.

Quark : "It's good to want things."
Odo : "Even things you can't have?"
Quark : "Especially things I can't have."

If I were in your shoes I would be looking for someone a little more entertaining, a little more fun, and maybe even a little more attainable.

Sisko : "You win some, you lose some."
Dax : "You always had problems with the 'lose some' part of that."

Too many people dream of places they'll never go, wish for things they'll never have... instead of paying adequate attention to their real lives.

It has been my observation that one of the prices of giving people freedom of choice is that sometimes they make the wrong choice.

Justice, as the humans like to say, is blind.

So, how well does she know you? Just enough to dislike you, or well enough to really hate you?

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, clear your mind of everything in it... if there's anything there.

You have to realise, there's some things in life you can't control. And one of them is me.

I love you, Nerys. I've always loved you.

Being accused of a crime is not a disgrace, Chief. Some of the great figures of history have shared the honour with you.

I'll never understand this obsession with accumulating material wealth. You spend your entire life plotting and scheming to acquire more and more possessions, until your living areas are bursting with useless junk. Then you die, your relatives sell everything, and start the cycle all over again.

You can make your own decisions, or you can let these prophecies make them for you.

I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.

No one can know the future. One can only follow one's instincts.

No matter how many stars there are in the sky. No matter how many galaxies swirl beyond our own. No matter what the mathematical probabilities, or the number of times we say, "we are not alone in the universe." Our first visit from the stars is always the province of children's stories and science fiction. Until one day, it isn't.

It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned.

Vanna: "It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor felt can do so much harm."
Kirk: "That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt."

Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

Being afraid of everything means you learn nothing.

There are so many reasons to join Starfleet. We get to reach for the stars. We get to reach for the best in ourselves.

You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's its power. And its flaw.

Despite speaking 94 languages, there are times when words are not enough.

Sometimes, in war, the terrible choice is the only choice.

Compassion: that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.

I'm a Doctor, not a magician!

To all mankind - may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth.

Garth: "I may have you beaten to death."
Marta: "No, you won't, because I am the most beautiful woman on this planet."
Garth: "You're the only woman on this planet, you stupid cow!"