Criminal Minds Quotes

Reid: I need to stop by a bookstore and pick up a copy of Empty Planet. I'd like to reread it before we talk to the author... I haven't read it since I was six.
Morgan: Six? I was still riding my Big Wheeler at six years old.
Reid: Do you mind? It will only take ten minutes.
Gideon: To buy it or to read it?
Reid: Uh... both, actually.

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Garcia: ...A guy went crazy on a bunch of computers at a science lab, screaming, "We will soon be the slaves and the machines will be the masters." [Looking around at her many computers] Yikes. That would totally suck for me. [Whisper] I'm surrounded in here.
Morgan: Come on, what are you worried about? You've got me to protect you.
Garcia: Hah! Now that gets my blood up.

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Gideon: Elbert Hubbard once wrote, "If men could only know each other, they would neither either idolize nor hate."

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Hotchner: Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seemed invincible, but in the end they always fall. Always."

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Gideon: Dale Turner mused, "Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."

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Reid: Yet the words 'holy' and 'war' never appear together in the Qu'ran.

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Gideon: We receive comfort from our prayers.
Jind Allah: We?
Gideon: Human beings. [pause] I say something wrong?
Jind Allah: You placed us on the same level.
Gideon: Aren't we?
Jind Allah: Well, here, I am thought of as less than human.
Gideon: And in your jihad, I am.

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Jind Allah: Who is your worst enemy, Agent Gideon?
Gideon: It's not a who, it's a what. Ignorance.

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Agent Bingaman: Two weeks ago, word got out that one of the other detainees was spilling secrets. Jind Allah managed to have a three-minute conversation with him in the shower line. That night, the other detainee committed suicide.

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Garcia: Dream on, JJ. No one wants the other kids peeing in their sandbox.

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Gideon: Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear."

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Reid: T.S. Eliot wrote, "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."

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Gideon: This last victim definitely had a message. You don't dump a body across from the Capitol Building by accident.

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Reid: I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind.

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Reid: There's nothing in the juvenile records.
Garcia: Okay, so think like a high school student.
Reid: I was 12 and hadn't gone though puberty yet when I was in high school.
Garcia: Okay, reset. I'll think like a high school student, you think like a profiler.

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Reid: You're not him. Who we are is constantly evolving. I'm a lot older than you and I'm changing. This job changes me... you changed me.

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Reid: [Regarding saving Nathan's life] How many people's lives did I risk in the future?
Gideon: Profiles can be wrong.
Reid: What if it's not? What if next time he kills somebody?
Gideon: Then you catch him.

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Reid: T.S. Eliot wrote, "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends."

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Morgan: "All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets." -writer Cory Doctorow.

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JJ: Nothing's happening.
Reid: Shhh watch [the rocket launches, JJ and Garcia scream, and it hits Emily in the head]
Emily: Ooh ow, what was that?
Reid: Oh, I am so sorry Emily!
Garcia: Don't you recognize a rocket when you see one?
Reid: I was merely demonstrating a physics law. I didn't mean to..
Emily: Ooh show me!
Reid: Turn around.
Emily: Turn around?
JJ: Yeah, he's not gonna show you how it's done.
Reid: A magician never reveals his secrets.
Emily: I thought you said this was physics?
Reid: Physics...magic !
Garcia: Trust me, it will do you no good to argue with him.

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Hotchner: Physics magic?
Reid: Yes, sir.
Hotchner: Reid, we talked about this.
Reid: I'm sorry, sir.
Hotchner: [smiling] You're really starting to get some distance on these things.
Emily: So he does have a sense of humor?
Reid: Sometimes.

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Hotchner: We can't have people on this team who have secrets.
Gideon: oh come on, Hotch, we all have secrets. Would you want us profiling you?

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Reid: "One begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." It's one of Sherlock Holmes' favorite quotes.

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Det. Gordinski: Did you get any sleep?
Morgan: You know I didn't.
Det. Gordinski: I slept like a baby myself. Didn't want to get out of bed.
Morgan: Really? So that wasn't your donut-eatin' ass on the other side of the glass all night then?

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JJ: [to Garcia, regarding Morgan's sealed criminal record] Unseal it.
Garcia: [in a somewhat desperate voice] But its a SEALED file.
JJ: Garcia, helping him.
Garcia: Right. HELPING him. HELPING him...

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Morgan: [to Det. Gordinski] The FBI invented these tricks you simple bastard!!

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Carl Buford: [to Morgan] I never hurt you. You could have said no.

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Morgan: I KNEW I should've told somebody about you when I was a kid! God, I was so afraid of you. I was afraid of the cops, what people would say. I was afraid of losing everything I was gaining.

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Morgan: One kid steps up and breaks the dam, just one, and then another one, and another one, because they're not afraid of you anymore.

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Morgan: I'm the KIND that has to spend the rest of this life making sure guys like YOU go down!

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