Criminal Mind Quotes - Page 10

• 

  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

  322 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

  102 Copy quote

• Though nothing can bring back the hour
  Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

  William Wordsworth

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 177 (1807)

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

  170 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

  217 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Guru Nanak

  Peace, Home, Able

  34 Copy quote
• 

  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

  585 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Distance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Spiritual, Children, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

  49 Copy quote

• 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

  Family, Loyalty, Our Love

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

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

  Bernard Malamud

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  21 Copy quote

• Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Procrastination, Political, Denial

  The Law of Delay ch. 13 (1971)

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Animal, Would Be, Dignity

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, Wise, Meaningful

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

  107 Copy quote

  Show source

• Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

  William Nicholson

  Teacher, Used In Criminal Minds, Brutal

  "Shadowlands", 1993.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fortune, Calamity, Satisfied

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 274, 1856.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

  Mario Puzo

  Family, Loyalty, Lying

  118 Copy quote

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  78 Copy quote

• No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Mistake, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Inspirational, Respect, Clever

  New Statesman 25 Feb. 1933

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

  Francoise Sagan

  Love, Philosophy, Philosophical

  37 Copy quote

• A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Buddhist, Flower

  28 Copy quote
• 

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

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

  92 Copy quote