Default Quotes

195 quotes by 174 authors

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who… — Ayn Rand
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? — Max Lucado
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill… — Richard Dawkins
I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichÃ©d, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get… — Justina Chen
I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies, tossing them into… — Sarah Dessen
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Marc didnâ€™t want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever. — Rachel Vincent
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence… — Chris Rose
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. — Augusten Burroughs
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan
I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the… — Tammara Webber
It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a defaultâ€”like it was there all the time, and… — Laini Taylor
I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I… — Veronica Roth
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god. — Marcus Brigstocke
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… — Stewart Udall
Pessimism is my default setting. — Miranda Hart
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world. — Martin Parr
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. — Alan Greenspan

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