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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• Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heaven, Wicked, Wages

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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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• 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.

  Stewart Udall

  Land, Choices, Titles

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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

  Denise Mina

  Strong, Opinion, Intellect

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Agony, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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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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• 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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• This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.

  David Foster

  Art, Real, Bullshit

  "David Foster Wallace's Legendary Graduation Speech Is Now An Awesome Short Film". "This Is Water" Speech at Kenyon College, www.businessinsider.com. 2005.

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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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• We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.

  Jason Fried

  Suggestions, Answers

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

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Writing

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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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• There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.

  Charles Bass

  Differences, Support, Economy

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

  Chevy Chase

  Running, Want, Minus

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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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• 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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