Dahj: Have you ever... been a stranger to yourself?
Picard: Many, many times

Data: Why are you stalling, Captain?
Picard: I don't want the game to end.

Laris: Bad dreams?
Picard: The dreams are lovely. It's the waking up that I'm beginning to resent

Tea. Earl Grey. Decaf.

Picard

Picard: You know, sometimes you talk to me as if I were a benign old codger.
Laris: Codger?
Zhaban: Somewhere between a coot and geezer, I believe

Zhaban: Extremely dignified, sir.
Picard: Look at this knot. It's ridiculous.
Zhaban: Maybe. But I want to keep my job.

You have no idea what Dunkirk is, right? You're a stranger to history. You're a stranger to war. You just wave your hand and it all goes away. Well, it's not so easy for those who died and it was not so easy for those who were left behind.

Picard

Picard: Everything in the quantum archives is locked in stasis, correct?
Index: Correct.
Picard: And no one besides myself has access, correct?
Index: Unless you prefer we sell tickets.
Picard: Is that humor?
Index: We're trying something new.
Picard: Don't give up your day job.

Picard: I will never leave you. We will go together to the Daystrom Institute in Okinawa.
Dahj: I was just accepted at Daystrom as a research fellow.
Picard: You were? That's brilliant!
Dahj: That doesn't mean anything anymore.
Picard: If I'm right, it means that you are the daughter of a man who was all meaning, all courage. Be like him.

I haven't been living. I've been waiting to die.

Picard

Dr. Jurati: Even before the ban... Well, a flesh and blood android was in our sights, but a sentient one... not for a thousand years.
Picard: That makes it even more curious that recently, I had tea with one.

Picard: Isn't it possible to create a synthetic that looks fully human?
Dr. Jurati: The short answer is no.
Picard: Well, give me the long answer.
Dr. Jurati: It'll still be no.

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 1 Quotes

Data: Why are you stalling, Captain?
Picard: I don't want the game to end.

Dahj: Have you ever... been a stranger to yourself?
Picard: Many, many times