Jed Rubenfeld Quotes

#1. On certain social occasions, otherwise dignified and serious men will begin behaving unconsciously like players on a stage, performing as they talk, acting as they gesticulate. The cause is invariably a woman.

Jed Rubenfeld

#2. Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

Jed Rubenfeld

#3. The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love
love is a crisis of the soul.

Jed Rubenfeld

#4. The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

Mat Johnson

#5. I've got four pairs of cowboy boots.

Jordan Spieth

#6. The pity of it was that this discovery, if such it was, now seemed so stale, so profitless to me. What good was it? What good did thinking ever do?

Jed Rubenfeld

#7. What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

Jed Rubenfeld

#8. If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.

Jed Rubenfeld

#10. All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

Eoin Colfer

#11. He'd heard the time seep away, a poisonous tick-tock in his mind, every beat of the clock a mocking reminder of mortality and pain.

Gena Showalter

#12. Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

Jed Rubenfeld

#13. Mr Banwell had mastered the great truth that truth itself, like buildings, can be manufactured.

Jed Rubenfeld

#14. Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

Jed Rubenfeld

#15. I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest.

Hanif Kureishi

#16. No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

Jed Rubenfeld

#17. I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#18. Reading is one of the important part of being a person.

Perry Moore

#19. For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

Jed Rubenfeld

#20. Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

Jed Rubenfeld

#21. If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

Jed Rubenfeld

#22. I know he is
sensitive
on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.

Jed Rubenfeld

#23. For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.

Betsy Brandt

#24. All it takes is instinct.

Jed Rubenfeld

#25. There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

Jed Rubenfeld

#26. A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

Jed Rubenfeld

#27. I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

Bob Dylan