The Longmire Defense Quotes

“life. People never end their lives thinking about things they wish they’d bought, but they do think about things they wish they’d done.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“The point being that you can get through life relatively unscathed and clean as a pin, but what’s the point? The scars and stains are what make us who we are, or at least who we eventually become.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“You must make time for reading or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“How much trouble do you think this world could divest itself of if we all didn’t think we were so tough?”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“If I took the time to tell you everything I know and you don’t, we wouldn’t get much of anything else done, now would we?”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“Fireman—the only job where you wake up to go home.” I watched as he walked out to where the TV light shined and his thirty seconds of fame began. — “So, you fell.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“Maybe I was some kind of class warrior.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“The triangle of fraud . . .” “What’s that?” He started, as if I’d woken him. “Oh—incentive, opportunity, and rationalization.” He stuck out three fingers and began counting them off. “The first leg, incentive, is pressure to commit the crime. A person is looking for a way to solve their financial issues due to an inability to pay their bills, drug and/or alcohol addiction, or simply status, wanting to have a bigger house or drive a fancier car.” He counted off another finger. “The second leg is perceived opportunity, where the individual identifies ways to commit fraud with the lowest amount of risk, like lying about the number of hours worked, inflated sales or productivity to garner higher pay, creating false invoices for products never purchased and pocketing the money, or selling proprietary company information to competitors.” He counted off the last finger. “The third leg of the triangle, and this is an important one, is where individuals persuade themselves into believing that they’re doing the right thing. They convince themselves that they’re just borrowing the money or feel entitled to it through perceived low pay, uncompensated hours, lack of respect, or trying to provide for their family.” “Okay, but what pushes two men whom we assume are relatively upright individuals into going so far as to kill someone?” “A lot of money.” I laughed.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“I’ve come to the conclusion, as a lot of elderly people do, that the times are growing worse in this godless, indifferent, chaotic universe, where social structures that disguise the true horrors of existence are rapidly falling away and that things are indeed getting worse.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“Paladin explained the basic unwritten law of jurisprudence, and how you can’t enforce a law that goes against the wishes of the majority and how there’s a name for people who do, tyrant. “Pretty weighty issues for a fifties television series.” “He”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“I remained silent as I waited for an eighteen-wheeler to slowly pass another, or as we referred to it in Wyoming, an elephant race.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“No, he hasn’t got the brains God gave gophers.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“Mr. Regis, why would your Tom Rondelle give the remotest tinker’s damn about my vintage murder investigation?”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“Stay out of it. This is a great big Cheyenne shit sandwich, and my advice to you is to not take a bite.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense

“I’d rather not roam the mountain calling Lady from Minnesota to the tune of ‘The Girl from Ipanema.”
― Craig Johnson, The Longmire Defense