Quotes about Liable

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. Votes: 4

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. Votes: 4

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. Votes: 4

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Votes: 4

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. Votes: 4

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. Votes: 4

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. Votes: 4

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. Votes: 4

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. Votes: 4

Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. Votes: 4

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. Votes: 4

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. Votes: 2

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. Votes: 2

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. Votes: 2

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment Votes: 2

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. Votes: 2

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Votes: 2

If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. Votes: 2

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. Votes: 2

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. Votes: 2

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. Votes: 2

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Votes: 2

The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted. Votes: 2

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice. Votes: 2

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. Votes: 2

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power. Votes: 2

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer. Votes: 2

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it. Votes: 2

True charity is liable to excesses and transports. Votes: 0

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else. Votes: 0

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction. Votes: 0

All power in human hands is liable to be abused. Votes: 0

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs. Votes: 0

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Votes: 0

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. Votes: 0

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble. Votes: 0

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. Votes: 0

Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish. Votes: 0

The Jews are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment. Votes: 0

Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken. Votes: 0

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big. Votes: 0

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. Votes: 0

Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism." Votes: 0

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused. Votes: 0

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. Votes: 0

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse. Votes: 0

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. Votes: 0

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. Votes: 0

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. Votes: 0

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. Votes: 0

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. Votes: 0

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. Votes: 0

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. Votes: 0

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too. Votes: 0

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. Votes: 0

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. Votes: 0

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. Votes: 0

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another. Votes: 0

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong. Votes: 0

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. Votes: 0

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. Votes: 0

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Votes: 0

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. Votes: 0

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things. Votes: 0

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. Votes: 0

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. Votes: 0

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do. Votes: 0

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance. Votes: 0

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have. Votes: 0

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. Votes: 0

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder. Votes: 0

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. Votes: 0

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live. Votes: 0

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. Votes: 0

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind. Votes: 0

A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. Votes: 0

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation. Votes: 0

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted. Votes: 0

This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that? Votes: 0

But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions Votes: 0

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting. Votes: 0

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. Votes: 0

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation. Votes: 0

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. Votes: 0

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast. Votes: 0

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Votes: 0

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. Votes: 0

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too. Votes: 0

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. Votes: 0

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves. Votes: 0

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do. Votes: 0

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid. Votes: 0

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable. Votes: 0

Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals. Votes: 0

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant. Votes: 0

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one. Votes: 0

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards. Votes: 0

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception. Votes: 0

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene. Votes: 0

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place. Votes: 0