Criminal Minds Quotes

Morgan: "We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it." Ayn Rand.

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Morgan: "... for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." William Shakespeare.

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Hotchner: "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." H. L. Mencken.

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Morgan: [holding JJ's baby] Look, look, what's he doing? He's smiling at Derek Morgan.
Garcia & Prentiss: [glance at each other] Gas.

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Rossi: "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were." President Dwight Eisenhower.

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Reid: "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." Sigmund Freud

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Morgan: British historian C. Northcote Parkinson said, "Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

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Rossi[in response to question, "Where did you get this kid Dr. Reid?"]: He was left in a basket on the steps of the FBI.

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Prentiss: Winston Churchill said, "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened and maintained."

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Hotchner: Mario Puzo wrote, "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."

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JJ: "And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the side. Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulchre there by the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea." Edgar Allan Poe

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Garcia: Reid, we need a DOB on Prentiss!
Reid: 7: 12 AM, October 12th, 19...
Prentiss: Hey!

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Rossi: "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." Albert Einstein

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Eric Olson (the UnSub): I always knew I'd end up back in prison, just a matter of when. You can come interview me if you want. I read in one of your books that's how you build your behavioural database, right? Maybe you can learn something from me. I've got a lot of questions myself. I'll be honest with you if you're honest with me. Because the one thing that you always ask is the one that I don't understand. Why?

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Rossi: Austrian novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote, "In youth we learn; in age we understand."

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Hotchner: "The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture." Camille Paglia

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Prentiss: Leonardo da Vinci said, "He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done."

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Prentiss: Is Hotch still here?
Garcia: Oh, I'm pretty sure he lives here.

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Prentiss: It's like the end of "The Dead." When Gretta remembers the boy she loved when she was younger, and she says, "I think he died for me."
Rossi: You know, James Joyce also said, "There is no heresy or philosophy so abhorrent to the church as a human being."

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Hotchner: "Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity." Roman author Publilius Syrus

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Hotchner: "Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny." John Hobbes

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Hotchner: It's over.
Foyet: Stop. I'll kill him-
Hotcher: You need him to write your story.

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Foyet: I said I'll kill him-
Hotchner: You kill him, I kill you.

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Hotchner: Tennessee Williams said, "We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out."

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Hotchner: "I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way to love." Françoise Sagan

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Reid: "Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett

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Reid: Stephen King wrote, "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win."

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Rossi: Dr. Burton Grebin once said, "To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself."

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Rossi: Andre Maurois wrote, "Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."

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Hotchner: "In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." Francis Bacon

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