It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. J. K. Rowling English Author More J. K. Rowling Quotes 1
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. Desmond Tutu South African Leader More Desmond Tutu Quotes 0
Are we the No. 1 team by default because Manchester lost, or are we the No. 1 team because we really are? I think we still have something to prove. Al Phillips More Al Phillips Quotes 0
We had to win the Licking Heights match on a default from Zach. They guy hit Zach in the head a few times and I pulled him out because of prior concussions injuries. He's done for the year due to re-aggravating his injury last Friday. Andy DiSabato More Andy DiSabato Quotes 0
It's an unbelievable story, ... He became a hockey player by default. He didn't live at the rink, wasn't a rink rat. Goes to (the University of Minnesota) Duluth - not a major hockey school. Everything that happened with Brett is not the standard; it's unique. No way is it the way you picture it with the son of a hockey player. Barry Melrose More Barry Melrose Quotes 0
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. Bishop Desmond Tutu African Spiritual leader More Bishop Desmond Tutu Quotes 0
I think I could probably get by in a pinch. I guess it would be me by default. Brendan Harris More Brendan Harris Quotes 0
I'm not expecting a major default problem for Spanish banks. Ask me what I think in six months. Bruno Duarte More Bruno Duarte Quotes 0
I see transparency as a default position for all those who want to do good journalism. I simply am not sure what the right degree of transparency is, and my not being sure is really a product of my some nine months now as the public editor at the Times. Byron Calame More Byron Calame Quotes 0
The year 2005 was, by many conventional measures, a positive year for corporate credit quality. Default rates remained low, recoveries on defaulted bonds were well above average, and aggregate credit rating revisions were favorable. David Hamilton More David Hamilton Quotes 0
Right now, UPS is sort of the default choice. If someone comes up with the better mousetrap, then suddenly they won't be so satisfied with UPS. If USPS starts acting like an innovative business, then a lot of people would like to work with them. The Airborne thing also makes a lot of sense. Elaine Rubin More Elaine Rubin Quotes 0
According to locker room lore, the name golf arose by default - all the other four-letter words had already been taken. George Peper More George Peper Quotes 0
Hiring a restructuring specialist does not imply filing, but when you do it and then default on the coupon, the picture is getting painted by the numbers. Glenn Reynolds More Glenn Reynolds Quotes 0
They have the athletes. We got the championship trophy, by default. Jody Grove More Jody Grove Quotes 0
Compassion was never a strong suit of mine, but almost by default, I have become much more sensitive to people with disabilities and other setbacks. Joel Davis More Joel Davis Quotes 0
Without compliance reform, more companies will default on their plans or simply stop offering plans to their employees, and taxpayers will be at a greater risk of being stuck with a multibillion-dollar bailout of the PBGC. John Boehner More John Boehner Quotes 0
The markets are telling you that more traders are starting to see a greater risk that a default scenario could happen sooner in time than later. You cannot deny there is a pattern here. John Tierney More John Tierney Quotes 0
If they can't manage this acquisition, they'll wind up reverting back to the default position, which is, 'Yes, we sell storage but what we really are is another kind of company, and storage just sort of goes along for the ride.' . John Webster English Writer More John Webster Quotes 0
Humans will continue to change ecosystems, cause extinctions, and affect the very future of evolution -- either by default or design. The default scenario will surely include ever more pests and weed-dominated landscapes and the extinction of most large vertebrates. Josh Donlan More Josh Donlan Quotes 0
The default zoning for virtually everything in town is housing. We need to examine whether we've gone too far. Larry Klein More Larry Klein Quotes 0
The Northeast is definitely outside the rest of the country (as far as talent). Just by default of having more touches it's much stronger on the west coast. Michelle Kreeger More Michelle Kreeger Quotes 0
Guy Lacombe can in no way be seen as a choice by default. He is a leader of men and a tactician, who has more years of experience than Fournier. Pierre Blayau More Pierre Blayau Quotes 0
The default software features have made it much easier to use. If you want to undo them and switch to another ISP, it's incredibly easy to change the defaults yourself ... it literally takes 10 seconds. Randall Boe More Randall Boe Quotes 0
The default activity patterns of the brain may, over many years, augment a metabolic- or activity-dependent cascade that participates in Alzheimer's disease pathology. The regions of the brain we tend to use in our default state when we are young are very similar to the regions where plaques form in older people with Alzheimer's disease. This is quite a remarkable convergence that we did not expect. Randy Buckner More Randy Buckner Quotes 0
We have been living in a disposable culture for a long time now, almost by default rather than by design, because it was too difficult to go to things like car boot sales or we weren't in the vicinity of them. Ebay makes all of that easy. Richard Hyman More Richard Hyman Quotes 0