Liable Quotes

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

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.

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

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.

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

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

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

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

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.

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

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

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

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

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.

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

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

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

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

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

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

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

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.