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We either live with intention or exist by default. -- Kristin Armstrong
To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. -- Jimmy Buffett
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. -- Desmond Tutu
Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default. -- Chevy Chase
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
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
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
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
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
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
Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves. -- Paul Krugman
Pessimism is my default setting. -- Miranda Hart
Patriots don't let their nation default. -- Gary Ackerman
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. -- Ayn Rand
I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default 'getaway' city. -- Carrot Top
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs. -- Alanis Morissette
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent. -- Al Franken
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. -- Ted Rall
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. -- Richard Dawkins
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences. -- Catherine Malandrino
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? -- Max Lucado
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. -- Denise Mina
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god. -- Marcus Brigstocke
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents. -- Frances Bean Cobain
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
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
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. -- Jim Lovell
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. -- James Chanos
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
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. -- J. K. Rowling
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
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
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. -- Ann Voskamp
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. -- Jean Charest
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. -- Martin Jacques
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
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. -- Stella Young
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. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
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. -- Wendelin Van Draanen
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. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
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. -- Cam Newton
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
Women are feminist by default. -- Caitlin Moran
Ephemeral should be the default. -- Evan Spiegel
Portability should be the default. -- Larry Wall
Whiteness is not the default in my fiction. -- Roxane Gay
You don't become an effective leader by default. -- John C. Maxwell
Life either happens by design or default, you choose. -- Bob Proctor
If India is computer, Congress is its default program. -- Rahul Gandhi
In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default! -- Tim Sweeney
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them. -- Alan Greenspan
I do not want America to default on its debt. -- Jeb Hensarling
The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default. -- George C. Marshall
You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail. -- J. K. Rowling
There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. -- Brendan Dooling
We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no. -- Jason Fried
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. -- Desmond Tutu
Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. -- Tim Ferriss
Marc didn't want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever. -- Rachel Vincent
You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training. -- Barrett Tillman
Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state ! -- Jaya
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. -- Augusten Burroughs
Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket. -- Mike Belkin
I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design. -- Chris Squire
Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans. -- Alex Berenson
I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen. -- Bill Huizenga
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. -- Lucas Papademos
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business. -- David Bonderman
In any high stress situation you are going to default to your level of training...period. -- Joe Teti
My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work. -- Gillian Anderson
The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design. -- Chris Squire
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. -- Andy Hargreaves
I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative. -- Josh Bernstein
I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human. -- Robert Gober
If you default on an unsecured debt, you won't lose anything (except points on your credit score). -- Jean Chatzky
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize. -- Robert Breault
I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default. -- Shirley Manson
Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point. -- Chad White
It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks. -- Siobhan Vivian
I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design. -- Linda Dillow
I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. -- Blythe Masters
But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default. -- Chip Kidd
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now. -- Caitlin Moran
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. -- Simon Schama
Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything. -- Charlie Brooker
If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field. -- Brian Tracy
Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring. -- Julia Glass
It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us. -- Evan Spiegel
There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark -- Alexei Sayle
These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything? -- James Carville
Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery. -- Graham Kendall
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default. -- Jason Bateman
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world. -- Martin Parr
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. -- Janelle Monae
The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed. -- Alanis Morissette
If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution -- Fred Thompson
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor. -- Avital Ronell
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. -- Randy Hultgren
Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead. -- Simon Sinek
Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting. -- Steve Carell
Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service. -- Anil Dash
I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me. -- Frank Caliendo
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. -- Nathaniel Branden
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. -- Andrew Napolitano
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. -- Charles Stross
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
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. -- Lucas Papademos
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. -- Peter Thiel
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. -- Mohamed El-Erian
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. -- Scott D. Anthony
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. -- Alanis Morissette
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. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
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. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
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. -- George Papandreou
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. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Eric Bolling
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. -- Ron Suskind

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