Words matter. These are the best Default Quotes from famous people such as Ron DeSantis, Stephen Moore, Skyler Samuels, Paul Keating, Steve Martin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If we reach the debt ceiling, we don’t have to default. Getting to that point just won’t allow us to reach new debt.
In a world without an Ex-Im Bank, which finances just 2 percent of U.S. exports, private firms would provide the insurance and credit these companies need, but at market rates that reflect risk of default.
A huge part of my life as an actor has revolved around fashion and beauty – just by default. It’s such a big part of the business.
A more worldly and competent foreign and defence policy is by far the preferred first line of defence – rather than the default position of relying on expensive but problematic hardware.
I’m for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
My default is e-40 because there’s no one else in the world who raps like him. I’ve always loved e-40.
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.
The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by ‘Wouldja please get this over with’ and not let us go into default.
Pessimism is my default setting.
The fact I’ve been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.
When the pressure is on, you’re going to default back to how you’ve played your whole life and how you’d normally pitch.
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.
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.
My face frowns by default, so when I’m most calm is when I appear the least approachable.
When you get into investing, your default stance should be ‘No,’ because most deals suck. Most deals won’t make money. Most companies will fail.
When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.
I’ve had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It’s like an ingrained, default setting.
Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.
Fortunately I’m Latin, and I’m born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It’s in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I’ve never been considered one of the world’s greatest dancers.
If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
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.
I became a cartoonist because I’d sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.
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.
Many graduates, moving often in the first years of their post-college life, simply forget to update their addresses with Harvard, and so bills go unanswered and uncollected. This is called a ‘technical default.’
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.
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.
There’s a tendency in American thought – maybe elsewhere, but that’s the culture I know best – to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that’s a misapplication of his ideas.
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
Escrow accounts are an important tool for homeowners to the reduce the risk of mortgage default on high-priced loans. Millions of Americans, including my wife and I, utilize these accounts to make monthly payments towards the annual financial obligations that come with homeownership like taxes and insurance.
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person’s intellect. It becomes your default position.
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.
Even if you’re not a fan of the Beatles you just know their songs by default. I had probably got bored of the Beatles by the time I was like 15 because I thought I had heard enough.
I love being on stage. I’m completely, totally relaxed. It’s the only time in my life when I know where I am and what’s coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let’s just say happiness isn’t my default position. There are dark parts. I’m very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
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.’
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.
No one wants a default, or to slam the door in the IMF’s face.
The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.
There’s no possibility that Argentina will fall into default if I’m president.
Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we’ve got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can’t service your debt.
I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what’s good, and that’s no way to live.
User-controlled default encryption is a real challenge for law enforcement.
I believe if you are sincere with your work and you are good at it, then your identity will be created by default.
Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today’s top cops on managing reputation – both of their force and, by default, their careers.
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
As far as I’m concerned, you’re a feminist by default if you’re born in the Western world right now.
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.
I feel like too many horror writers and filmmakers sort of just assume that the default is, ‘The horror movie must be all atmosphere first and everything else second.’
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.
I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it’s going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why?
If you think of politics as ‘serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,’ which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.
In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone’s default mode.
‘Final Fantasy VII’ is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don’t wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.
I think that it would be a mistake for any institution to think that their stake in a default or in a voluntary accord is determined by the amount of their exposure, hedged or unhedged.
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.
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.
