Ziva Quotes

What do you think you're going to do with an antique rifle?" "Probably shoot something with it.

I'm going to stick by you, for better or for worse." "It will most likely be worse, you know." "Yeah, I figured.

...no longer needs us."... "I'll always need you," Mox said fiercely.... "You'll miss us," Ziva said. "Want us. But that's something else entirely.

He glanced to the walkways on either side of him, wondering what the chances were that he would actually catch sight of Ziva. Keeping an eye out for someone who didn't want to be found - especially when that someone was Lieutenant Ziva Payvan - was as close to futile as something could get. It wasn't a matter of finding her, but rather of her making herself known when she saw fit.

You know, I've always admired you for seeming so selfless and trying to shift the blame to yourself, but then I got to thinking...." He turned around to address her directly, and his eyes were colder than she'd ever seen them. "Maybe you just can't stand the thought of everything not being about you.

Do you really think you can just walk back in here and expect us all to cooperate after what you did?" "Would it help at all if I said I was sorry?

He wondered briefly if she always got people to do her bidding just by looking at them.

Why? Why are you doing this?" "Because, even though you sometimes make my job ten times harder than it needs to be, I've never doubted your abilities for a second.

She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused. This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with.

Memories of actual events have more temporal and spatial attributes than do memories of imagined events (you may recall the exact time of your visit to the library and remember which floor you visited), more sensory attributes (you may recall the color of the shirt you wore that day), more detailed and specific information (you may recall which books you checked out, which other people were present, what the librarian said), and more emotional information (you may recall your boredom and frustration as you stood in the long checkout line). You may also have supporting memories (you may still have the book you checked out that day), and your memories may be corroborated by those of others (your friend reports remembering going to the library with you that day). We rely on all these cues to distinguish real from imagined events. We may also rely on our reasoning powers: If the memory includes logically impossible events (books jumping off the shelf to greet you), you may conclude that this event must have been imagined. On the other hand, if the recalled events seem coherent and logically interrelated, you may view the memory as more accurate. Because we rely on such cues to construct the reality of recalled events, we may sometimes confuse reality and imagination when the cues mislead us. As imagined events become more rich and detailed, we become more likely to mistake them for real.

This kind of confusion between memories for reality and imagination lies at the heart of common everyday failures at reality monitoring. If you ever engage in imagined conversations with your loved ones, in which, for example, you rehearse recounting an amusing incident, you may later find it difficult to tell whether you have already told them about this incident or have only imagined doing so. As a result you may on occasion be embarrassed to find that you are repeating yourself. On other occasions, you may discover that your loved ones know nothing about an incident that you thought you had told them about. Imagined conversations with strangers are far less likely to be mistakenly recalled as real because of the constraints of plausibility (you know full well that you have never met the president of the United States). The research on reality monitoring has disturbing implications for how stereotypes may be maintained even when they receive no objective confirmation. We may imagine group members engaging in stereotypic behaviors, and then mistakenly recall these imagined events as real. Consider the thoughts a White man might entertain as he is walking through a Black neighborhood on a dark night. He may conjure up images of the terrible things that residents could do to a White person who happens into their neighborhood, and may imagine that each approaching individual is planning to mug him. Later, he may come to confuse these images for reality. So, paradoxically, even though he had walked through the Black neighborhood without incident, an event that, if anything, should weaken his stereotype of Black people as criminal, his stereotype may actually be strengthened by this event.

social psychologist Ziva Kunda, who argues that people are indeed more likely to believe things they want to believe, but that their capacity to do so is constrained by objective evidence and by their ability “… to construct a justification of their desired conclusion that would persuade a dispassionate observer. They draw the desired conclusion only if they can muster up the evidence necessary to support it.”22 It is informative in this respect that people generally think of themselves as objective.* People rarely think that they hold a particular belief simply because they want to hold it, the evidence be damned. This sense of objectivity can nevertheless be illusory: Although people consider their beliefs to be closely tied to relevant evidence, they are generally unaware that the same evidence could be looked at differently, or that there is other, equally pertinent evidence to consider. As Kunda describes it, “… people do not realize that the [inferential] process is biased by their goals, that they are only accessing a subset of their relevant knowledge, that they would probably access different beliefs and [inferential] rules in the presence of different goals, and that they might even be capable of justifying opposite conclusions on different occasions.”23

Well, as far as I'm concerned, you're just one more arrogant shouka who couldn't care less about anyone but herself." "You're not wrong there.

I'm sure you remember Lieutenant Tarbic." "I do. I must say he looked better through my rifle scope.

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Is she always like this?" "Like what? A sociopathic shouka? Not always, if you can believe it. Is she always damn good at what she does? Yes. Always.

You're a killer.... I never did peg you for an ordinary field agent. The way you carry yourself, the apathy in your eyes -- dangerous people recognize these things in other dangerous people.

Do you remember when you came in and got me out of the harvesting room at Dakiti? I hadn't expected to ever see you again, and you just said--" "Of course I came back, you idiot.

You didn't have to do this, you know. I would have been fine." "No, you wouldn't have. You would have done everything in your power to make sure everyone thought you were fine.

Life is great; if you believe in yourself. — Ziva

In every soul burns the light of justice, hidden but never extinguished. When darkness rises, we discover that ordinary people can become extraordinary watchers, standing guard between hope and despair.