Criminal Minds Quotes

Morgan: "No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris

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Hotchner: "I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization." Booth Tarkington

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Prentiss: Well, I think it's safe to assume that our UnSub is male.
Hotch: I agree with you, given what we know about aggressive driving and road rage.
Prentiss: And the fact that men have an unnatural bond with their cars.
JJ: That is true.
Morgan: Wait a minute, I don't know about "unnatural".
JJ: I once dated a guy who washed his car more than he washed his hair.
Rossi: A nice car needs love.
JJ: And a woman doesn't?
Rossi: I'm not qualified to answer that.

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JJ: "The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience." Mahatma Gandhi

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Reid: "It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt and it will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt." Exodus 9: 9

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Reid: [to Morgan, waking up from the anthrax attack] Are you eating jello?
Morgan: Hey kid. Hey Doc, he's back!
Reid: Is there any more jello?

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Reid: "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." Helen Keller

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Hotchner: Flannery O'Connor said, "If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity."

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Reid: Do you ever get the feeling that a case isn’t going to end well?

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[after seeing the pairs of shoes of the 89 victims]
Det. Benning: God...
Morgan: I don't think God has been here in a long time.

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Hotchner: Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. Did it need to end that way? Could something have been done to prevent the tragedy in the first place? Eighty-nine murders at the pig farm, the deaths of Mason and Lucas Turner make 91 lives snuffed out. Kelly Shane will go home and try to recover, to reconnect with her family but she'll never be a child again. William Hightower, who gave his leg for his country, gave the rest of himself to avenge his sister's murder. That makes 93 lives forever altered, not counting family and friends in a small town in Sarnia, Ontario, who thought monsters didn't exist until they learned that they spent their lives with one. And what about my team? How many more times will they be able to look into the abyss? How many more times before they won't ever recover the pieces of themselves that this job takes? Like I said, sometimes there are no words or clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day.
The Reaper: You should have made a deal.
Hotchner: Sometimes, the day just...
[Screen fades to black, then a gunshot is heard]
Hotchner: ... ends.

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Rossi: Karl Kraus said, "A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards."

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Morgan: We're not working a case, why call us to a crime scene?
Rossi: I was hoping you knew.
Prentiss: JJ said the police told her it was urgent.
Morgan: Four hours of sleep after what we went through in Canada, it better be.

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Garcia: [to Reid on the phone]Okay, do you want biological information or full medical charts?
Reid: Can you *get* the full medical charts?
Garcia: [to Reid] You know, for a smart boy you sure ask a lot of dumb questions.

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JJ: [quoting Reid, who is on crutches due to his gunshot wound] Kicking down doors is Morgan's job anyway.

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Hotchner: Emily Dickinson wrote, "One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place."

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Rossi: [about Hotch] He was evaluated.
Morgan: Come on, we wrote those questions. Hotch knows exactly how to answer them.

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Garcia: [talking about Reid's leg] Does it hurt?
Reid: It really only hurts when I think about it, which is pretty much all the time.
[Reid reaches for cookie]
Garcia: No, no, no, go away you.
Reid: What?
Garcia: These are for Hotch.
Reid: I get shot in the leg and I don't get any cookies? You know he's going to hate the attention.
Garcia: It's cookies, not cake.

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Reid: I've been thinking about it; the whole time I've known Hotch, I don't think I've ever seen him blink.
Garcia: I know. It's weird.
Reid: It's classic alpha male behavior.
Garcia: Do you think he stared down that Foyet?
Reid: Maybe. Could be what saved his life.
Garcia: Do you think he stared the whole time, like with each stab? [Mimicking stabs]
Reid: I have no idea.
Garcia: Is he okay?
Reid: I wouldn't be, but... I'm a blinker.

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Hotchner: "There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius

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Rossi: "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal

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Reid: What's this?
Hotch: You told me you were cleared to fly. You lied.
Prentiss: Naughty boy.
Reid: No I didn't. I am a doctor, so technically it wasn't a lie.
Garcia: What was it then?
Reid: ...A second opinion?
Garcia: You're my bitch now.
[Morgan laughs]

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Garcia: [to Hotch via webcam with Reid] I got something that might help us with that...
Reid: Technically, we have something that might help us with that.

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Reid: [to Prentiss via webcam with Garcia] Anything less than 10,000 dollars keeps the IRS off your trail.
Garcia: [desperately] I know that too.

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Rossi: I work with a kid who could solve this in five minutes.
Ray Finnagan: He must be smarter than both of us.
Rossi: That's for sure.

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Finnegan: Hey, that kid. the smart one. I can sure use his help.
Rossi: Reid?
Reid: Reid here!
Finnegan: Ten letters. Crater creator?
Reid: Ten letters. Crater creator?
Garcia: Arctangent!
Rossi: Did you get that?
Finnegan: Damn, she's smart!

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Rossi: "I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln

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Morgan: Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."

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Hotch: [to detective Anderson] I know what it's like to to work a case that makes you question humanity and you have to rise above it all.

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Morgan: William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends."

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