Liable Quotes

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

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.

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

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

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

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.