Liable Quotes

Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable.

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

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.

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.

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

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

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

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.

If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

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 world, if we choose.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

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

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