#default

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon. ↗

— Barack Obama

#got #jeopardy #moment #nobody #put

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

#cautiously #default #failed #failing #impossible

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? ↗

— Steve Martin

#children #default #find #i #instruments

Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#family-farm #poem #poetry #sherman-alexie #short-poems

I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#default #ever #few #goes #here

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

— Richard Dawkins

#decision #default #drift #less #more

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. ↗

— Jon Voight

#become #becoming #causes #default #freedoms

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#default #force #liberty #never #recovered