Default Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

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.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

We either live with intention or exist by default.

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.

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

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

There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them.

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.

It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because 'typical' is just another way of saying 'most probable.'

'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.

Nobody's going to default in the U.S. Treasury market. The biggest concern I have is that not everybody understands that, and some people understand it better than others.

Secrecy seems to be the default here. It appears the judge wants to discourage media coverage.

Securing the funds is easing concerns of default and other risks. The gains are unlikely to last because there aren't any signs yet that earnings are recovering. You need money to restructure and all they have so far is the barest of necessities.

Setting the default to dangerous doesn't work in any other industry.

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

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

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

I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'

If it's not back there by the due date, you can go into a default rate here very quickly. If you miss a couple of payments, you can be charged a default rate, which can be up to 28 percent.

Based on the information I have right now, Charlie Batch is the starter by default until I see more.

Because of the rise in home values, much of that financial distress has been covered by the increasing amount of equity that people have had in their homes. That equity is now being created at a slower pace, and default activity is inevitably on the rise.

He remained one of the top leaders through the entire process. This is no default stance; it's not a game of chicken and he was the last one to blink. He is the man who will lead the Clark County School District into the future and he will carry the responsibilities that this board will continue to give him.

What Yeltsin is doing is a political default which will be followed by an economic default,

Humans will continue to change ecosystems, cause extinctions, and affect the very future of evolution -- either by default or design. The default scenario will surely include ever more pests and weed-dominated landscapes and the extinction of most large vertebrates.

If such an event occurred and Belden were unable to obtain waivers or otherwise resolve the covenant violation, an acceleration of the amounts under the credit agreement or the termination of the ISDA agreement could create a default under the indenture for Belden's $192 million senior secured notes.

Many families are frustrated and overwhelmed by working hard only to see their debt grow instead of their savings. This is a large group of people who are one late payment away from receiving punitive default rates of almost 30% on credit cards and other loans. If you are at the edge, default rates will be devastating. If your credit card bill comes at the end of the month when there is no money left, contact your credit card company to change your billing schedule to fit with your pay schedule.

Part of the significance of this vulnerability announcement is that your machine can be exploited without you needing to do anything at all. You don't even have to open an e-mail or attachment, and this happens with the default configuration of the product.

I was able to use credit default swaps to protect not only my investments but the hundreds of jobs that exist because of my investment. I understand the dangers of credit default swaps and the benefits of credit default swaps.

Respecting people is my default state of mind. But if there is a man does the otherwise to me, I'll make him understand in anyway he'll listen.

Our feeling is that Brazil will default in the next year and you could have a similar problem to what you had in Argentina.

It had never occurred to me that the District Attorney would default when it came time to hear the man he'd held captive for two years reply to him.

Microsoft would certainly benefit if say a Comcast or some other broadband providers with popular portals chose MSN as the default search.

Without compliance reform, more companies will default on their plans or simply stop offering plans to their employees, and taxpayers will be at a greater risk of being stuck with a multibillion-dollar bailout of the PBGC.

We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light?

We had to win the Licking Heights match on a default from Zach. They guy hit Zach in the head a few times and I pulled him out because of prior concussions injuries. He's done for the year due to re-aggravating his injury last Friday.

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

We had a few errors, a default in one or our printers so they actually had to replace the printer.

This really all comes down to the basic theme of content sharing. We realize that this is a really important scenario, and that's why we're making the move to default XML formats that are fully documented.

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

The only evidence that intelligent design is able to muster is the observation that science has not yet explained everything, and therefore design must be kept around as a default explanation for what is left,

The default activity patterns of the brain may, over many years, augment a metabolic- or activity-dependent cascade that participates in Alzheimer's disease pathology. The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to the regions where plaques form in older people with Alzheimer's disease. This is quite a remarkable convergence that we did not expect.

The default format for Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 12 will be completely open, meaning you aren't tied into Microsoft software to access your files.

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

The default position is just to continue with the project as is.

The default rate will tick up, but we don't see a systemic increase.

The default view will be the physical storage space, and then you can create virtual folders on top of it.

The default zoning for virtually everything in town is housing. We need to examine whether we've gone too far.

We have been living in a disposable culture for a long time now, almost by default rather than by design, because it was too difficult to go to things like car boot sales or we weren't in the vicinity of them. Ebay makes all of that easy.

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

The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to the regions where plaques form in older people with Alzheimer's disease.

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

We're seeing a more enlightened Microsoft. Back in 1998, they would've tried to tell people to use their stuff more exclusively. Microsoft is saying to application developers: Don't default to Flash.

The person selling will still be on the hook if there's a default on the loan even if (he or she) is completely out of the building.

We are seeing an evolving new international economy. We are in the process of learning how it works as we are doing it, ... Fortunately, the trauma that came out of the Russian default created so much risk aversion ... we probably have time to be deliberative in determining how the (international monetary) structure ought to be structured.

We appear to use memory systems often in our default states. This may help us to plan and solve problems. Maybe it helps us be creative. But it may also have metabolic consequences.

During decompression of RAR files, Symantec is vulnerable to multiple heap overflows allowing attackers complete control of the system(s) being protected. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely, without user interaction, in default configurations through common protocols such as SMTP.

During decompression of RAR files Symantec is vulnerable to multiple heap overflows allowing attackers complete control of the system(s) being protected. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without user interaction in default configurations through common protocols.

I see transparency as a default position for all those who want to do good journalism. I simply am not sure what the right degree of transparency is, and my not being sure is really a product of my some nine months now as the public editor at the Times.

I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.

The scope of the affected platform is exactly the same, and these services are run by default on Windows 2000. In terms of ease of exploitation, they're not incredibly difficult to exploit, but they're not as easy as the Plug and Play vulnerability.

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

We currently believe that Navistar will resolve the potential default well before the 60-day cure period ends. If it appears that the company will be unable to resolve this potential default quickly, or if the company's liquidity were to become a concern, a multiple-notch downgrade is possible.

Browsers are becoming the default way to access information.

Even though Windows Media Player is not something generally used to render images, it has the capability of doing that. It's not difficult to create a Web page that uses Windows Media Player to display an image instead of the default application. I think it's a ripe target for exploitation if we see public exploit code for it.

Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.

A couple of those matches could have gone either way. (Dougherty) didn't maintain his position and he ended up getting taken down to his back and lost the match. (Stephens' match) was close. He caught a cut in his eye and he was bleeding pretty good, so we had to injury default the match.

The government is not going to default on contracts they have with the public. The bottom line and the word we have to get out is that it doesn't matter the size of this, we will be able to pay the claims.

Right now, UPS is sort of the default choice. If someone comes up with the better mousetrap, then suddenly they won't be so satisfied with UPS. If USPS starts acting like an innovative business, then a lot of people would like to work with them. The Airborne thing also makes a lot of sense.

Are we the No. 1 team by default because Manchester lost, or are we the No. 1 team because we really are? I think we still have something to prove.

There's not a lot of investment opportunities out there, so yield is still the default play for the market. But when the New Zealand dollar turns, it will turn aggressively, and if we don't get yield demand it will fall by a country mile.

We did not object to the court not issuing a default warrant for him.

I use the default iOS calendar app. I've tried others, but it's my favorite, and I can't live without it. If it's not on my calendar, I'm not aware of it, whatever it is.

The ups and downs of default activity are clearly determined by whether prices are going up by 4 percent, or 14 percent or 25 percent annually. If it's worth more, you have more options.

They were in default in January. Obviously they'll be in default for February.

This is a frivolous lawsuit that has nothing to do with the facts and has no basis in law. Consistent with industry practice, we give our members the ability to select their default Internet connections. These default features, which many other Internet service providers and applications employ, were developed in response to member feedback and demand for a simpler, yet more rewarding online experience.

A DLL is canned functionality, so if you include a vulnerable DLL in an application, that application is by default vulnerable.

This is the first instance where you actually must go and do a custom install to control them from installing other software, ... Most folks go to the default install and are not expecting to get a whole suite of unasked-for software. That's where the sneaky factor comes in.

In corporate debt, you have the credit risk of borrower defaulting and that's why people rely on the rating agencies to provide a guide on the default risk, and the other risk is that there could be a blow out in yields, for instance, you buy a portfolio and inflation takes off or companies go bust.

If one or two of the plants end up not making it, or if there's a default on the loan, I don't think there'll be any others.

I'm not expecting a major default problem for Spanish banks. Ask me what I think in six months.

Not only are emerging countries unlikely to default because they are in good condition, they are unlikely ever to default on existing bonds because they are buying them back quickly.

Anytime you start with an injury default in the first weight class, that kind of deflates the team. That had a lot to do with our momentum. We didn't get any momentum from that match and we struggled the rest of the way.

In the absence of a second layer of information, we all assume the job growth is from hiring. It is our default position.