Top 25 Liable Quotes of 34 - Page 2

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

Anna Funder

Memories, Unreliable

Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.221, Granta Books

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Rufus Choate

Power, Liable, Reactions

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

Michael K. Williams

Hurt, Liable

"All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

Mistake, Liable, Second Thoughts

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Joyce Meyer

Feelings, Trusted, Unreliable

Joyce Meyer (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.11, Hachette UK

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

Tom Stoppard

Revival, Liable, Involved

Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.183, University of Michigan Press

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

Steve Kanaly

Long, Enough, Liable

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Miguel de Cervantes

Littles, Riches, Liable

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.73

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, Liable, Institutions

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.23, Rajpal & Sons

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

Ludwig von Mises

Perfect, Doe, Liable

Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

Kristin Cashore

Causes, Helping, Liable

Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.154, Hachette UK

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

John Ruskin

Thinking, Disease, Liable

John Ruskin (1872). “The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857”, p.114

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

Excess, Charity, Liable

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Henry David Thoreau

Government, People, Liable

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books