Liable Quotes

195 Liable quotes by 166 unique authors

It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each… — Carl von Clausewitz
You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. — Jerry Coleman
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… — William Shirley
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner
It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a… — Frederic Farrar
When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong. — James Lipton
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… — Ernestine Rose
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… — Ferdinand Mount
Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death… — Toni Morrison
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half… — B. C. Forbes
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… — George Combe
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable. — Lafcadio Hearn
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his… — Thomas Merton
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… — George Washington
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,… — Chuck Close
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need… — C.S. Lewis
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… — Jean de la Bruyere
That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs. — Albert Schweitzer
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… — Mary Antin
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,… — Aristotle
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… — Chris Evert
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to ask. I do… — John Edensor Littlewood
'If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall… — John of Kronstadt
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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