Top 440 Default Quotes & Sayings

Writing about food is my default.

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.

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.

Humor is my default mode.

As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.

I've already lived through a default and it's very hurtful for society. No one could want a default as a solution.

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.

By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default 'getaway' city.

Life either happens by design or default, you choose.

You don't become an effective leader by default.

Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state !

There's no possibility that Argentina will fall into default if I'm president.

We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.

I think the credit default swaps can take the place of the rating agencies who really have missed the ball in this procedure and are quite conflicted by the way the ratings are paid for. So, I would like to see credit default swaps become an evermore important way of understanding credit risk in the economy.

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

In my min,d there is arguably a greater risk of a default on the debt of a U.S. state than there is on the debt of a euro-area member. I consider it unthinkable that a euro-area country would default.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me. If I bought a credit-default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money.

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.

I do not want America to default on its debt.

If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008.

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.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

No one wants a default, or to slam the door in the IMF's face.

My default state is wariness.

Women are feminist by default.

Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

Argentina is in a virtual, hidden default.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.

By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.

Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.

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.

Ephemeral should be the default.

Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

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

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.

There is absolutely no way that the U.S. will ever default on its debt. We are not going to do that.

We either live with intention or exist by default.

Portability should be the default.

Pessimism is my default setting.

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

The best companies with the strongest credit ratings borrow like the United States: on a non-prioritized basis. This means that in the event of a default, all of their debts are of equal priority because lenders and creditors believe default is highly unlikely. And they spend considerable effort maintaining this status.

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.

The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.