Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The Jews are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment. — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make.… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson Copy Share Image
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans)… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do?… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the highway, as a lake of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken. — Jane Heller Copy Share Image
You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Even if you run without a purpose, when you keep moving, you're liable to free yourself. — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
