Paul Levine Quotes
-
The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.
→ -
The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.
→ -
Solomon's Laws: 8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel.
→ -
I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.
→ -
Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.
→ -
Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice is the North Star, the burning bush, the holy virgin. It cannot be bought, sold, or mass produced. It is intangible, ineffable, and invisible, but if you are to spend your life in its pursuit, it is best to believe it exists, and that you can attain it.
→ -
With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil could not possibly reside in the form of this angel. Or could it? Sure, I'm politically incorrect. I admit it; I confess; guilty as charged. I am, Your Honor, the lowest of the species, still wet from the swamp, webbed feet fossilized in the mud. I am a Man!
→ -
We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.
→ -
A good lawyer is part con man, part priest -- promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?
→
Related Authors
-
Irvin D. Yalom Author -
Ron Glass Actor -
Naguib Mahfouz Film writer -
Lance Henriksen Actor -
Milan Kundera Writer -
Matthew Reilly Writer -
Michael Connelly Author -
Jorge Luis Borges Writer -
Les Standiford Author -
Kevin Pollak Actor -
Jostein Gaarder Author -
Stephen Baldwin Actor -
Jamie McGuire Author -
Haruki Murakami Writer -
Frederick Forsyth Author -
Ian Mcewan Novelist -
Julian Barnes Writer -
James Grippando Novelist -
Jorge Amado Film writer -
Carl Hiaasen Journalist