Emily Prentiss quotes from Criminal Minds

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

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Washington Irving said, "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Irving. The earliest instance it could be located was in an article that was published by The American Masonic Register on February 6, 1841. Here, the quote was not attributed to anyone. In 1845, the quote was printed in The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, published by William C. Brown, who attributed the quote to an author named Dr. Johnson, whose first name was never disclosed.]

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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." Sir Walter Scott

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Tennessee Williams said, "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

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

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"We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Andre Berthiaume

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Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering."

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William Glasser wrote, "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today."

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"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Novelist Vladimir Nabokov

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"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder the firm resolve of a determined soul." Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Lao Tzu said, "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

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Journalist Dorothy Dix wrote, "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets and takes its own punishment in silence."

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"The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another." Author Elizabeth Bear

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[speaking to the Senate Committee about the BAU's recent actions] The only people I know who could accomplish that mission just walked out. They do their jobs with integrity and, most importantly, they honor their oath: "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." Henry Ellis