Liable Quotes

195 Liable quotes by 166 unique authors

If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you… — P.J. O'Rourke
How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow… — Mao Zedong
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,… — Alexander Hamilton
People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another. — Vincent de Paul
These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to… — Frederick Douglass
While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild… — Anna Kavan
Fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a… — Mitchell Zuckoff
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted. — Thomas Jefferson
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among… — James Hutton
I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates… — Joseph Sittler
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into… — Plutarch
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton
Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not… — James Agee
I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else. — Michael K. Williams
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. — Anthony Sampson
Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked,… — Ralph Waldo Trine
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… — P T Barnum
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… — Debbie Allen
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? — Randy Newman
Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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… — David Knopfler
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Katharine Whitehorn

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