Criminal Minds Quotes

[Morgan walks in and startles Elle]
Elle: Dude!
Morgan: Dude? You're way too tense.

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Hotchner: How is it having Gideon around?
Garcia: You can have him back whenever you would like.

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Hotchner: Sometimes what we don't do is every bit as powerful as what we do.

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Gideon: Harriet Beecher Stowe once said, "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

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Gideon: The poet W. H. Auden wrote, "Evil is always unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table."

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Journalist: Come on, JJ. Gimme something. For old times sake.
JJ: [sighs] Okay... [looks around, steps closer, whispers] You may wanna rethink that tie.

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Garcia: Penelope's house of "how may I save your ass today?"

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Gideon: Hey Hotch, did you send flowers to that tech room girl Garcia and say they were from me?
Hotchner: Yeah.
Gideon: Why?
Hotchner: Jason, people need to know that they're important and sometimes you forget that.
Gideon: I already sent her a gift, an MP3 player. It lasts longer unless you drop it or the batteries die, whichever comes first.
Hotchner: So she got two gifts?
Gideon: What if she thinks I'm sweet on her!

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Gideon: "Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Gideon: Roman philosopher Lucretius wrote, "What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

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Gideon: Confucius warned us, "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

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Gideon: Mr. Fisher?
Eric Fisher: Shrink or cop?
Gideon: Well, I’m an FBI profiler, so I guess I’m a little of each.

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Gideon: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Genesis 9: 6

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Gideon: Albert Pine said, "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

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Gideon: Norman Maclean wrote, "It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

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Reid: What do you think of Ryan?
Hotchner: He hasn't changed much.
Reid: I think we can learn a lot from him.
Hotchner: What could you possibly learn that you don't already know?
Reid: Hotch, repetitive thinking is a death knell for the brain. For complete brain usage, diverse stimulation is the key.

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Ryan: [reading second note] In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Gideon: He's quoting Sir Francis Bacon now.
Ryan: I used this specific quote in my...
Reid: In your book on page 184. I read it on the plane.
Ryan: And you remember the page number and the quote?
Morgan: Don't ask.

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Ryan: Miss me?
Gideon: No.
Ryan: Just here to buy a book then, huh?
Gideon: What can I say? Profilers, they fascinate me.

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Gideon: Hmm...You look comfortable up there. Why don't you come back to the BAU for a guest lecture?
Ryan: I'm retired, remember?
Gideon: Hell of a way to relax, 323 pages on the one that got away.
Ryan: He hasn't gotten away - and you didn't count that eight page prologue.

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Hotch: He moved to be closer to the crime scenes.
Elle: That's retirement?
Morgan: BAU-Style.

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Elle: Abraham Lincoln once said, "In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

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Hotchner: Nietzsche wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

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Blackwolf: [to Gideon] You look like a college professor. [to Reid] You look like his student. [to Hotchner] You look like FBI.

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Blackwolf: We don't do massacres. You do.
Hotchner: Me personally?
Blackwolf: Your government.

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Officer: Are you trying to tell us that Indians wouldn’t be so brutal?
Blackwolf: No, I’m saying that Indians wouldn’t be so confused.

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JJ: That’s Hotch’s brother? I don’t see it.
Hotchner: Sean, listen to me. All I’m saying is that you’re 25 years old.
Sean: You know what? Don’t profile me Aaron. [storms away]
JJ: (looking at his butt) Now I see it.

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Elle: Brother…as in that’s Hotch’s brother?
Garcia: Maybe Hotch is adopted?

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Gideon: Are the Ga'he good spirits or bad spirits?
Blackwolf: They're both. Like men.

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Blackwolf: Samuel, tell the men from the FBI who the Ga'he are.
Reid: The Ga'he are mighty spirits who dwell in desert caves.
Hotchner: Reid, is your name Samuel?
Reid: Sorry.

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Reid: She's answering every question with just her name and Social Security Number.
Hotchner: Like a prisoner of war.

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