Fallback Position Quotes

#1. President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

Lee Kuan Yew

#2. The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Karl Rove

#3. Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea.

Paul Kingsnorth

#4. Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

Helen Fielding

#5. I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Laura Lippman

#7. Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Ray Bradbury

#8. When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. The spirit of the Internet. This spirit is a powerful myth concocted by overzealous legal activists, and the sooner we bury it, the better.

Evgeny Morozov

#10. There are things no magic can destroy, for they are magic in themselves.

Cassandra Clare

#11. What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

Shaun White

#12. When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

Daniel Johnston

#13. It is a good deal better to have life in Christ and God than any where else. I would rather have my life hid with Christ in God than be in Eden as Adam was. Adam might have remained in Paradise for 16,000 years, and then fallen, but if ours is hid in Christ, how safe!

Dwight L. Moody

#14. If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.

Rod Hundley

#15. Delete it. Start over.

Christopher Nicole

#16. It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

Gary Busey

#17. My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

Chang-rae Lee

#18. I don't have a problem with the media focusing on bad things happening. That's our job, after all. But I think it's incomplete, and I would even say it's inaccurate, to only portray a place through its tragedies.

Annia Ciezadlo

#19. Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Jean-Baptiste De La Salle

#20. I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

Lee Daniels