Used In Criminal Minds Quotes:

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Relationship, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational, Instant Communication, Mind Opening

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Love, Marriage, Missing You, Leaving Home, Off To College

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Strength, Umpires, Justice, Criminal Justice, Best Criminal Minds

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

- William Nicholson

source: "Shadowlands", 1993.

topic: Teacher, Brutal, Used In Criminal Minds

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Christian, Photography, Adversity, Darkness To Light, Light And Darkness

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

- Washington Irving

topic: Tears, Weakness, Mark, Hurt My Feelings, Hurt Feelings

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

topic: Humorous, Men, Enemy, Mind Opening, Best Criminal Minds

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

- Helen Keller

topic: Spiritual, Doe, Superstitions, Experiencing Things, Either Or

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

topic: Relief, Violence, Hopelessness, Best Criminal Minds, Temporary Relief

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Positive, Marriage, Hungry For Love, Hurt And Pain

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

- Emily Dickinson

source: " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Soul, Hope And Faith, Extremity

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

- Chuck Jones

topic: Together, Lions, Predator, Hungry Lion, Mind Opening

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

- Erich Fromm

topic: Self Esteem, Used In Criminal Minds

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Daddy, Sons Love, Father And Son

These violent delights have violent ends.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Friendship, Delight, Violent, New Moon, Long Love

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

- Cyril Connolly

source: New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933

topic: Inspirational, Respect, Writing, Writing For Yourself, Self Empowerment

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Play, Games, Life Is Precious, Life Is A Game

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Spiritual, Children, Evil, Used In Criminal Minds

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Life, Hero, Writing, Used In Criminal Minds, Great Hero

A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Motivational, Success, Strong, Strong Man, Weak Man

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Birthday, Peace, Age, Mind Opening, Relinquishing

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Skins, Solitary Confinement, Solitary Man

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Children, Growing Up, Suicidal, Used In Criminal Minds

It's love that makes the world go round.

- W. S. Gilbert

source: W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.504, Oxford University Press

topic: World, World Is Round, Round World, Used In Criminal Minds

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

- Tacitus

topic: Gratitude, Revenge, Men, Criminal Mind, Used In Criminal Minds

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Life, Games, Chess, Uncanny, Checkmate

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Justice And Mercy, Justice For All

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

- Eric Schmidt

topic: Humanity, Anarchy, Firsts, Internet Technology, Internet Users

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

- George Chakiris

topic: Hope, Dark, Matter, Criminal Mind, Used In Criminal Minds

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Inspirational, Family, Men, Inspirational Family Love, Loving Family

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

- Walter Scott

source: Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

topic: Wisdom, Truth, Hype, Needlework, Deceived Us

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Baby, Literature, World, World Is Round, Round World

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

- Guru Nanak

topic: Home, Able, Messengers, Used In Criminal Minds

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

- Haniel Long

source: Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

topic: Family, Loyalty, Our Love, Best Criminal Minds, Used In Criminal Minds

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Life, Wisdom, Teacher, Learning Life, Thinking Less

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fathers Day, Son, Giving, Sons Love, Inspirational Father

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

- Flannery O'Connor

topic: Animal, Would Be, Criminal Mind, Used In Criminal Minds