Quotes About Dilemma

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?

A lawyer who's afraid of jail is like a surgeon who's afraid of blood.

I had, under pressure, handed over bribes many times before.

They were in my briefcase, in the trunk, but I was hesitant to get out of the car. I was much taller than the policeman, and he might make my height a cause for provocation

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing what to do is the worst kind of suffering.

My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice.

She wasn't afraid of difficulties what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. "I am afraid of committing myself" she thought to herself she wanted to follow all possible paths and ended up following none.

I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

He couldn't go forward or back. It was easier just to leave the stage.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.