Default Position Quotes

#1. I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. Life is a flying lesson. Hang on and have fun.

Kenny Miller

#3. 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.

Catherine Tate

#4. My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

Kirk Cameron

#5. What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

William Safire

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

Denise Mina

#7. Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. The sweetest things in this world today have come to us through tears and pain.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

#9. 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.

Tim Hetherington

#10. Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

Malcolm Boyd

#11. I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

Lily Allen

#12. With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

David Benioff

#13. [W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

Jon Ronson

#14. Draw: For the most part, a draw occurs when it appears that neither side will win.

Kenya Wright

#15. 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

#16. I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

Georges Bataille

#17. I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

Josh Bernstein

#18. 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.

#19. And I notice too often that the most unfeeling of people relieve their shuttered hearts by cooing over babies, who when grown , will be the same people exploited or ignored.

Jeanette Winterson

#20. 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

#21. If I could turn into a wisp of smoke, I could slip into them and disappear.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#22. Awareness of the settler-colonialist context of US history writing is essential if one is to avoid the laziness of the default position and the trap of a mythological unconscious belief in manifest destiny. The

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz