Top 36 Defaults Quotes
#1. A shocking ultimatum is issued; choose the victim or it defaults to someone you hold dear. And she has just minutes to decide. As each crime becomes more brutal, she is forced to play devil's advocate as she chooses the next target.
WITNESS
Caroline Mitchell
#2. Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
Catherine Malandrino
#3. I'm afraid sometimes certain individual cases of defaults are unavoidable. What we should do is to step up monitoring, properly handle relevant matters, and ensure there is no regional and systemic financial risk.
Li Keqiang
#4. Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
Stephen Graham Jones
#5. Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#6. Why do people always expect you to trust them? With all the shit that goes on in this world, I don't know why anyone expects my trust just because they are unverifiably, according to themselves, a nice guy. Who the hell defaults to trust?
Malka Older
#7. Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles?
Nicholas Kristof
#8. Sometimes the world is better off if one always defaults to option number two.
Anne Mallory
#9. Our primary defaults are exhaustion and guilt. Meanwhile, we have beautiful lives begging to be really lived, really enjoyed, really applauded
Jen Hatmaker
#10. Positive defaults protect you from yourself - and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.
Tom Rath
#11. After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely.
Thomas Sowell
#12. One of the big problems in America's economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can't be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America.
Michael Hudson
#13. When we become curious about the dissatisfying defaults in our world, we begin to recognize that most of them have social origins: Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. Before
Adam M. Grant
#14. I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?
Paul Krugman
#15. The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call "skin in the game," where they've got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults.
Richard Thaler
#16. If one could not remember somebody's trousers, then jeans were the safe default. Indeed, "defaults" was a good name for jeans. I put on my defaults. It sounded quite right.
Alexander McCall Smith
#17. There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.
Meredith Whitney
#18. If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.
Robert Breault
#19. Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.
Tom Rath
#20. You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.
Anthony Goldbloom
#21. Newspapers play up as sensational every attempt by a Negro to rape a white woman. Yet this white rape of Negro women is apparently a different matter. But it is rape nonetheless, and practiced on a scale that dwarfs the Negro's defaults. The
John Howard Griffin
#22. The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve - really want is for new buyers to be able to borrow enough money to buy the houses from mortgage defaulters, and thus save the banks from suffering from more mortgage defaults.
Michael Hudson
#23. Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.
Ethan Watters
#25. You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really ... exist?"
"Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns."
"No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're ... good.
Ally Carter
#26. To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#27. Only a woman could make so much out of so little. Give them a single fact and they'd fashion it into a story before taking a single breath.
Ted Dekker
#28. I'm stuck fighting. (Acheron) You're stuck fighting. But you're welcome to come share my beach any time you get tired of the brawl. (Savitar) Save me a spot. If this blows up in my face, I'll be back with my tail forever tucked between my legs. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#29. You've got to go through hell ... Before you get to heaven ... Let's do 10 more
Frank Giampaolo
#30. Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#31. Always follow your bliss; bliss is heavenly. Life will be divinely beautiful and grow spiritually. Life will be beautiful, peaceful, blissful, and divine.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Obedience has a way of strengthening rather than depleting our resources. If we obey in one small corner, we will have power to obey elsewhere. Obedience begets obedience.
Richard J. Foster
#33. Don't you feel shame? I thought scum like you could at least feel shame
Kohta Hirano
#34. I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.
John McCain
#35. This is a completely heterosexual bro-hug that I offer in a totally nongay way to all my hockey brothers.
Isa K.
#36. Since I've turned 50, I've had the best roles of my life, and I've got married. Everyone said that wasn't possible because there are no men, but I've done it. I think it's just going to get better.
Lesley Nicol
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