Liable Quotes

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On Free Will: "The man who arrives young believes that he exercises his will because his star is shining. The man who only asserts himself at thirty has a balanced idea of what will power and fate have each contributed, the one who gets there at forty is liable to put the emphasis on will alone."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

(on the part of his career when he played almost exclusively bad guys) The best part is always the heavy. And the meaner and crueler and the worse you are, the more vicious you are as the heavy, the better the hero looks when he whips you. So, the heavy is liable to be a very dramatic, fine acting part. I told my agent at that time, "I want to play heavies who are really vicious and cruel and terrible. I want them to know that they`re terrible and I want them to enjoy it."

- Leslie Nielsen

I won`t do commercials either. I don`t want to sell anything. As an actor, it`s tricky. You have this platform and it has to do with your face, your charisma. It`s tricky when you endorse something because people are liable to believe you. Be careful.

- Christopher Walken

Don`t remake a successful picture, because you`re liable to be the flop. Steve Martin and I made a much better picture of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) than Marlon Brando and David Niven did. What I wouldn`t do anymore is play any guest shots. I`ve given that up. I did it as some fun and it backfired in Get Carter (2000) so I`m not doing it again. Now I hear that they`re going to remake The Italian Job (1969) with me in the Noel Coward part. I`d consider it, yes.

- Michael Caine

I was concentrating on winning instead of throwing the horseshoe. Now I don`t care what the other person is doing. I don`t watch their throw. I`m just looking straight ahead at the stake. If you walk in front of me while I`m in competition, I`m liable to hit you.

- Terry Farrell

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

- Abigail Adams

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.

- Bob Feller

Where we have strong emotions, we`re liable to fool ourselves.

- Carl Sagan

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.

- Debbie Allen

There`s a slayer statute that says if you murder somebody else, you don`t inherit from their estate. But if he was involved (in the embezzlement), then that`s why you have to include everything, because he could be liable (if) he was an accessory to the crime.

- Melissa Walker

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

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I was dealing with craft, and that`s the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you`re talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they`re liable to feel something strong.

- James Lipton

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.

- Daniel Berrigan

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.

- Bernard Cornwell

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they`re liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can`t be realized.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

In the past, if I only licensed my bread-making patent to a miller if he also bought his wheat from my brother then I was liable to lose that patent. That provision was lost in the Competition Act of 2000.

- Ross Anderson

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.

- Alejandro Freire

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

- Alexander Nikonov

Unless this is done, we shall be liable to be ruled by an arbitrary and capricious armed tyranny, whose word and will must be law.

- Alexander Surikov

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.

- Alexander Wiley

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.

- Alexander Young

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.

- Ali Rahnema

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

- Alvina Tan

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

- Andrew Duff

The league is very enthused about the prospect of having a flagship facility in the New York metropolitan area, and they`re liable to be focused on helping assist this project with a retractable roof.

- Annette Wiese

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

- Will Rogers

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi