Liable Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

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.

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.

No, if there is an aspect of the executive branch of the government that needs looking at, I'm liable to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.

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.

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.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place.

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

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