Default Quotes

“Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ("The world was somewhere else" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“Women who have learned how to always be in touch with their sensuality can't help but attract at the highest vibrational level than those who have not. In fact, that becomes their default setting. They are a perfect representation of the "early birds catches the fattest worm" adage.”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn’t even remember figuring it out.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“When a person is deserted, he learns by default, how to survive.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“It’s your own fault if you’re living by default.”
― Richie Norton

“We imagine that we can wait until the doctors tell us that there is nothing more they can do. But rarely is there nothing more that doctors can do. They can give toxic drugs of unknown efficacy, operate to try to remove part of the tumor, put in a feeding tube if a person can’t eat: there’s always something. We want these choices. But that doesn’t mean we are eager to make the choices ourselves. Instead, most often, we make no choice at all. We fall back on the default, and the default is: Do Something. Fix Something. Is there any way out of this?”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Don’t live life by default.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game

“After signing a new lease agreement, tenants should be counseled to file [with the county Recorder's Office] a request for notice under CC §2924b. By recording their lease interest and thereby securing their right to be notified of defaults [on the property they lease], tenants position themselves to avoid the unfortunate surprise of discovering only after the property is lost through foreclosure that, despite paying their rent each month, they face possible termination of their tenancy.”
― Andrew E. Westley, Matthew Bender® Practice Guide: California Landlord-Tenant Litigation

“Exaggeration of hurt enhances the defaulters’ guilt.”
― B.S. Murthy

“That perhaps the ways of his mother and his father had occupied whole regions of his heart. I know this.”
― Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker