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

If we are to have intense pleasures, we must also be liable to intense pains. — Alan W. Watts

Principles which could be subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. The — Thomas Hardy

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

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. — Mahatma Gandhi

Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success. — Agatha Christie

Here, a court might conclude that P is not vicariously liable because A was on a "frolic. — Robert W. Hamilton

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things. — Chuck Close

But love is a stubborn thing to conquer. When you think you've killed it, it's liable to bob up again as strong as ever. — L. Frank Baum

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc De Clapiers

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. — Miguel De Cervantes

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. — P.D. James

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. — D.T. Suzuki

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

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. — Mary Antin

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

Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude. — Jonathan Franzen

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another. — Vincent De Paul

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

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble. — Casey Robinson

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

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

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape ... — Alain De Botton

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm. — Sandra Dallas

Rhiannon's Law #16: If it looks like a rabbit, and it hops like a rabbit, run the other way and fast. That shit is liable to tear you arm off. — J.A. Saare

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions. — Henry Fielding

Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism. — William Ralph Inge

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

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

What makes me liable to great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me? — Lao-Tzu

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction. — Rufus Choate

Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen. — Sandeep Sharma

A conqueror, I say, can change the course of everything, and muffled tyranny is the first thing which is liable to violence. — Montesquieu

True charity is liable to excesses and transports. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder. — Sonny Liston

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

Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment. — Neil Gaiman

Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. — Sarah Josepha Hale

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. — Ari Fleischer

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

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. — Quintilian

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. — Hosea Ballou

If you don't laugh at the crazy things, you're liable to lose your mind. — Andrew Sturm

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

An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain. — Joe Abercrombie

I will share one of them with you now: most people don't want trouble, but frightened people are liable to do very dangerous things. — Ann Leckie

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. — Henry David Thoreau

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

It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another may destroy them. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson

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

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

He wants awfully to be inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid. — Truman Capote

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story. — Dorothy Allison

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

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

All power in human hands is liable to be abused. — James Madison

An economist is a man that can tell you ... what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too. — Will Rogers

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. — Arthur Conan Doyle

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. — Albert Camus

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. — Luc De Clapiers

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. — Jeph Jacques

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

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. — Charles D. Broad

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else. — Michael K. Williams

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. — John Locke

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things. — Augustine Of Hippo

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Katharine Whitehorn

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

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs. — Albert Schweitzer

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. — Carl Sagan

There lay the real danger; for the energy they devoted to fighting the disease made them all the more liable to it. — Albert Camus

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222) — Gabrielle Zevin

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. — Voltaire

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

Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken. — Jane Heller

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 paid. — Jean De La Bruyere

Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man — F Scott Fitzgerald

But Hey, Guess What
Crazy means I'm not liable
for my actions. So screw it,
I'll go home, propped up on
Prozac against distractions — Ellen Hopkins

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

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

In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck. — Thomas M. Disch

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 blast. — George Washington

When night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable — Thucydides

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance. — Carroll Smith

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some [young people] are taking pills called "heaven or hell" drugs, because you're liable to experience either one. — Billy Graham

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have. — Roger Ailes

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it. — Richard Whately

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself. — Plato

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came. — Peter De Vries

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

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend who is still liable to surprise us. — N. T. Wright

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