Default Quotes

• Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Faith, What If

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• We either live with intention or exist by default.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Intention

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• I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

  Steve Martin

  Children, Wall, Mortgage

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• I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

  Suze Orman

  Maturity, Fans, Assuming

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• We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.

  Jon Voight

  America, Support, Causes

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• Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

  Joy Page

  Way, Manifest, You Choose

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• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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• To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Reading, Today, Leisure

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Writing

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• I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

  Sara Gilbert

  Beauty, Writing, Waiting

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• Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

  Chevy Chase

  Running, Want, Minus

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• In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

  Michael Novak

  Tyranny, Humans, Human Society

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• When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Taken, Reality, Political

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• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Leadership, Nature

  As quoted in "The Christian Science Monitor", December 20, 1984.

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• I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

  Ted Rall

  Awful, Cartoonist, Editorials

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• Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

  Tony Blair

  Community, Conflict, Accepting

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• I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Atheist, Would Be, Bloody

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• After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

  John Sununu

  Debt, Answers, Chance

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• People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

  Paul Ryan

  Winning, People, Reform

  "Fussbudget" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.

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• My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

  Richard Dawkins

  Decision, Scientist, Bits

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• I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Data, Kind

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• I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.

  Carrot Top

  Home, Cities, Orlando

  "Comic's haven is Orlando, but Cabo was heavenly". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Fur, Indulgence, Humans

  "Catherine Malandrino Loves Fur, Old Buildings, Cigarettes". Interview with Corbin Chamberlin, www.thecut.com. February 13, 2011.

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• The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

  Alan Greenspan

  Zero, United States, Debt

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