#liable

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

#because #come #earth #heaven #kingdom

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

#correcting #discourage #effort #faults #liable

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

— Will Rogers

#anybody #economist #else #good #guess

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#fda #food #health #information #interest

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#democratic #democratic state #dream #entirety #everything

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #first #first step #glorious #greatness

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#consumer #credible #critical #elimination #goals

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. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#ailments #bound #common #exemption #fellows

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#duty #easier #others #reliable #self

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted