- Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
- Vargas: McGreevey put this bandage on me. He ripped up his own uniform to make it.
- Doctor Bashir: He sounds like a good friend.
- Vargas: He was a jerk. I couldn't stand the guy. He wouldn't shut up. Yap, yap, yap! He thought he was the world's greatest authority on everything. I know, he's dead, and I should have more respect. But God, I hated him. One minute he's tying this bandage around my arm talking his head off, and in the next minute he's lying flat on his back with a hole in his chest... And I just sat there and I looked at him. That was so great... He was so quiet! One time in his life, he's quiet!
- [sobs]
- Nog: [after losing his leg] Captain... The communications array - it's worth it, right?
- Captain Sisko: I hope to God it is.
- Lt. Commander Worf: This was a great victory - one worthy of story and song.
- Captain Sisko: It cost enough.
- Vic Fontaine: I wish I was going on the supply run with you. I could make some personal appearances, sing a few songs, tell a few jokes - you know, put on a regular USO show.
- Doctor Bashir: I'm afraid there are no holosuites where we're going.
- Vic Fontaine: Rom's right - life can be unfair. You know, pally, sometimes being a hologram can be a real pain in the asymmetric photons.
- [last lines]
- Colonel Kira: Sir, the latest casualty reports have just been posted.
- Captain Sisko: How many this time?
- Colonel Kira: Including the troops lost at AR-558 - 1730.
- Captain Sisko: [whispering] 1730...
- Colonel Kira: It's a lot of names.
- Captain Sisko: They're not just names. It's important we remember that. We have to remember.
- Kellin: You're sure you're not an engineer?
- Lieutenant Ezri Dax: In nine lives, I've been a little of everything.
- Captain Sisko: I think that's what I'm going to remember most about this war - looking through casualty reports. Sometimes it feels like that's all I do - stare at the names of the dead. When the war started, I read every name. I felt it was the least I could do to honor their sacrifices... But now, the names have begun to blur together.
- Lieutenant Ezri Dax: This is my first time on the front lines.
- Kellin: You're talking about Ezri now?
- Lieutenant Ezri Dax: Right. But Torias, Curzon and Jadzia, they were in battle many times. And I can remember what that felt like. I remember the fear, the anger, and the adrenaline surge.
- Kellin: Having someone else's memories of being in combat is one thing. Living through it yourself... is another.
- [Sisko has suggested to use the Dominion's subspace mines against the Jem'Hadar]
- Lieutenant Ezri Dax: A few hours ago, we thought of these mines as the kind of ruthless weapon only the Dominion would use. But now...
- Reese: ...they become a whole lot friendlier.
- [Rom has asked Vic to sing in the lounge as Vic's opening act]
- Vic Fontaine: Two singers on the same bill, that's a one-way ticket to Deadsville. I need someone to warm up the audience for me. You know, a comic.
- Rom: A comic?
- Vic Fontaine: A comedian, someone who can make people laugh.
- Rom: I can do that. My brother tells me people are always laughing at me.
- Vic Fontaine: Well, that may be true, but this is a holosuite program, capisce?
- Rom: So?
- Vic Fontaine: So you're not a hologram.
- Rom: Life can be so unfair!
- [first lines]
- Rom: [Counts himself in and then sings] One two three four one. She likes the free fresh wind in her hair, life without care. She's broke. But it's oke. Hates California, it's cold and it's damp. That's why the lady, that's why the lady, that's why the lady is a scamp!
- [Vic applauds politely. Rom gets down off the stage to join him]
- Rom: So, what do you think?
- Vic: Not bad, but the lady is a tramp, not a scamp.
- Rom: Tramp, right. So do I get the... gig?
- Vic: Sorry, pallie.
- Rom: But Doctor Bashir said you're looking for an open act and I looove to sing.
- Vic: I can tell.