Quotes about Default

We either live with intention or exist by default. Votes: 4

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Votes: 4

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. Votes: 4

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default. Votes: 4

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Votes: 3

Pessimism is my default setting. Votes: 2

Patriots don't let their nation default. Votes: 2

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. Votes: 2

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default 'getaway' city. Votes: 2

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. Votes: 2

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent. Votes: 2

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. Votes: 2

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. Votes: 2

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences. Votes: 2

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? Votes: 2

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. Votes: 2

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god. Votes: 2

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting. Votes: 2

So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. Votes: 2

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded. Votes: 2

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote. Votes: 2

One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention. Votes: 2

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs. Votes: 2

We often hear that people mean well: that so many just don't how to interact with people with disabilities. They're unsure of the 'right' reaction, so they default to condescension that makes them feel better in the face of their discomfort. Votes: 2

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company. Votes: 2

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think. Votes: 2

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives. Votes: 2

I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Women are feminist by default. Votes: 0

Ephemeral should be the default. Votes: 0

Portability should be the default. Votes: 0

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction. Votes: 0

You don't become an effective leader by default. Votes: 0

Life either happens by design or default, you choose. Votes: 0

If India is computer, Congress is its default program. Votes: 0

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default! Votes: 0

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them. Votes: 0

I do not want America to default on its debt. Votes: 0

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default. Votes: 0

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail. Votes: 0

There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. Votes: 0

We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no. Votes: 0

Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. Votes: 0

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. Votes: 0

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. Votes: 0

Marc didn't want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever. Votes: 0

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training. Votes: 0

Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state ! Votes: 0

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. Votes: 0

Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket. Votes: 0

I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design. Votes: 0

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans. Votes: 0

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen. Votes: 0

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. Votes: 0

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business. Votes: 0

In any high stress situation you are going to default to your level of training...period. Votes: 0

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work. Votes: 0

The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design. Votes: 0

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. Votes: 0

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative. Votes: 0

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human. Votes: 0

If you default on an unsecured debt, you won't lose anything (except points on your credit score). Votes: 0

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. Votes: 0

I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default. Votes: 0

Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point. Votes: 0

It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks. Votes: 0

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design. Votes: 0

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. Votes: 0

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now. Votes: 0

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. Votes: 0

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything. Votes: 0

If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field. Votes: 0

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world. Votes: 0

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring. Votes: 0

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us. Votes: 0

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark Votes: 0

These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything? Votes: 0

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery. Votes: 0

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default. Votes: 0

It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. Votes: 0

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world. Votes: 0

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. Votes: 0

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed. Votes: 0

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution Votes: 0

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor. Votes: 0

I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem. Votes: 0

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead. Votes: 0

Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting. Votes: 0

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service. Votes: 0

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me. Votes: 0

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. Votes: 0

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government. Votes: 0

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon. Votes: 0

Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand. Votes: 0

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default. Votes: 0

In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. Votes: 0

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default. Votes: 0

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs. Votes: 0

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. Votes: 0

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities. Votes: 0

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Votes: 0

It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default. Votes: 0

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. Votes: 0

All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up. Votes: 0

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default. Votes: 0

We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions. Votes: 0

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts Votes: 0

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default. Votes: 0

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are. Votes: 0

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't. Votes: 0

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral. Votes: 0

Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being... Votes: 0

If you default on your Visa bill, nobody comes to repossess your refrigerator or auction off your shoes. The biggest penalty you'll face is trouble getting future credit. Votes: 0

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military. Votes: 0

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan. Votes: 0

As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with. Votes: 0

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people. Votes: 0

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own. Votes: 0

You know, men would much rather run away than talk about stuff, and my default setting has always been, 'If you have an argument, walk out the door.' Votes: 0

Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money. Votes: 0

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default. Votes: 0

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful. Votes: 0

If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with. Votes: 0

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument. Votes: 0

Belief is the natural state of things. It is the default option. We just believe. We believe all sorts of things. Belief is natural; disbelief, skepticism, science, is not natural. Votes: 0

When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama. Votes: 0

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default. Votes: 0

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works. Votes: 0

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know. Votes: 0

Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name. Votes: 0

When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter. Votes: 0

If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings. Votes: 0

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex. Votes: 0

I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default. Votes: 0

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid. Votes: 0

The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity. Votes: 0

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term. Votes: 0

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government. Votes: 0

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people. Votes: 0

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go. Votes: 0

Surrounding people whom a person likes is not really getting ones who he or she is like character wise, as individuals of same nature befriend by default and not by design of own choice. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon. Votes: 0

My purpose is to help people understand that leadership skills are useful and relevant for pursuing meaningful aspirations in all aspects of life, and that this is a choice, a decision, not a default. Votes: 0

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. Votes: 0

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write. Votes: 0

Fundraisers treat men completely differently than women. As a matter of fact, many of them have the default on their direct mail set up to read "Mister," and it really rankles a lot of women. Votes: 0

Everyone's default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it's sometimes amazing what comes out of people. Votes: 0