quotes about Liable
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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
-- Anthony SampsonSource : Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.
-- Clive Stafford Smith -
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.
-- David Knopfler -
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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 BellamySource : "Looking Backward, 2000-1887". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 22, 1888.
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In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -
True charity is liable to excesses and transports.
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You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.
-- Jerry Coleman -
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The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.
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You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.
-- Kristin Cashore -
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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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 -
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I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.
-- Michael K. WilliamsSource : "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.
-- Paul Dirac -
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
-- Rufus Choate -
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
-- Sarah Josepha HaleSource : Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1850). “Godey's Magazine”
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If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
-- Tom Wilson -
Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.
-- Umar -
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
-- Will Rogers -
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 -