In my experience, the past is a place to learn from, not to live in.

Kilbride [to Callen]

You know I always wanted to be a fireman. Mostly just to get in the calendar.

Deeks

Deeks: What'd I miss?
Fatima: Rountree and Agent Morehurst used to date.
Deeks: Oh, that's the good tea. Tell me more.

I know what ghosting is, Agent Namazi. And fascinating as the love lives of my agents are, I'd like a sitrep.

Kilbride [to Fatima]

Fatima: Hey! What happened between the two of you?
Rountree: It's a long story.
Fatima: It can't be that long. You only dated three months.

Summer: If I wanted to see you, which I didn't, I would have called you. Oh, but I forgot. You don't know how a phone works.
Rountree: Ooh. Ouch. Fair shot.

Don't get me wrong. It is healthy to question authority ... on occasion. But when it gets to be a regular pattern of behavior, quite frankly it begins to piss me off.

Kilbride [to Callen]

Sam: This is the one who got away.
Summer: Proverbially and literally.

Callen: And what would Kilbride have me do?
Fatima: He wants you to meet him in his office.

Kilbride: I need an answer by the end of the day so don't dilly dally.
Deeks: Of course not. I'm neither dillying nor dallying.

Rountree: And you. You're [Sam's] partner. Why aren't you training for this [triathlon]?
Callen: I wish I could. I envy you guys. Unfortunately, I've got this thing. What's it called again. Oh, yeah. Common sense.
Sam: And he's afraid of sharks.

NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 Episode 8 Quotes

Kilbride: I need an answer by the end of the day so don't dilly dally.
Deeks: Of course not. I'm neither dillying nor dallying.

Rountree: And you. You're [Sam's] partner. Why aren't you training for this [triathlon]?
Callen: I wish I could. I envy you guys. Unfortunately, I've got this thing. What's it called again. Oh, yeah. Common sense.
Sam: And he's afraid of sharks.