#liable

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#easy #had #hardening #her #instead

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

#behind #discover #future #great #left

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#because #commitment #committed #deep #favorite

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#american politics #friend #i #money #most

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

#falls #generally #great #great art #into

The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#ally #both #countries #does #france

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

#asks #else #his #improvement #less

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#either #fairly #force #good #government

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#form #hard #islam #original #pliable

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

#could #exist #forget #know #liable