Here are some of my favorite bookend quotes from the first three seasons of Criminal Minds. Not as long as yesterday. Enjoy, Sanders out.
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Joseph Conrad
"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." - (attributed to) William Shakespeare
"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind." - Robert Oxton Bolton
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." - Diane Arbus
"The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman." - Mexican proverb
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves." - François de la Rochefoucauld
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." - Elbert Hubbard
"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." - Helen Keller
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
"It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it." - John Wooden
"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." - Mahatma Ghandi
"Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow." - T.S. Eliot
"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." - T.S. Eliot
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." - Herman Melville
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - G.K. Chesterton
"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.” - Frank Miller
"For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won." - Lucy Maud Montgomery
"...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be." - Neuroscientist, Dr. R. Joseph
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." - Ben Okri
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"A woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. " - Susan B. Anthony
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