"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."
(Emperor Turhan, "The Coming of Shadows", Babylon 5)

"Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit"
(Picard, "All Good Things..." Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"Synthetic Scotch, synthetic Commanders..."
(Scotty, Star Trek:TNG)

"I used to think it was awful that life wasn't fair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the dreadful things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
(Marcus Cole, "A Late Delivery from Avalon", Babylon 5)

"If you prick me, do I not... leak?"
(Data, Star Trek:TNG)

"My whole life just flashed before my eyes. I gotta get me a life."
(Xander, Buffy The Vampire Slayer)

"Fate, it protects fools, small children and ships called Enterprise."
(Riker, Star Trek:TNG)