Liable Quotes

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.