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“Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs.”

Men Kind Stills Past Given Waiting Land Dog Given Up Venice Default Appointments Hanging Around

Book:The big orange

Source: The big orange

“I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.”

Thinking May Done Might Chance Issues Members Congress Shooting Take A Chance Default Hostage Conservative Values

Author:Mitch McConnell

“Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.”

Important Universe Given Goal Tasks Regard Performing Efficient Efficiency Effectiveness Default

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Firsts Happened Doors Baby Periods Notes Motherhood Setting Settings Pregnant Apologizing Default Having A Baby Menopause

Book:Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

Source: Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

“The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.”

Jesus Mercy Ultimate Eternity Fulfillment Default

Author:Alistair Begg

“In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.”

People Giving Government Politics President Imagination Taxes Congress Determine Code Giving Back Default

Author:Matthew Continetti

“Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?”

Way Needs May I Can Turns Situation Please Findings Discovery Oneself Determine Critical Traditional Alternatives Heels Turn-on Inaction Exit Default Finding Oneself

Book:The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

“The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.”

Ifs Want Use Would Be Force Depends Pockets Neighbour Default Guinea

Author:John Ruskin

“I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.”

People Knows Sometimes Next Dark Love Is Stage Position Very Good Relaxed Only Time Default

Author:Robert Powell

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

Kind Home Cities Default Orlando Getaways

Author:Carrot Top

“I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.”

Thinking Years Tvs Idols Default

Author:Jason Bateman

“Patriots don't let their nation default.”

Nations Patriot Default

Author:Gary Ackerman

“A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.”

Would Be Very Good Equity Greece Default Portugal Private Equity

Author:David Bonderman

“So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.”

Knows Nations Records Sovereign Greece Default Lending Lending Money

Author:James Chanos

“We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.”

Firsts Believe Has Beens Important Jobs Growth Environment Greater Creation First Time Hopefully Default Having Hope Job Creation

Author:Jay Carney

“If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.”

Ifs Want Home Certain Cases Exercise Vote Finding Yourself Default Stay At Home Referendums

Author:Jean Charest

“As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?”

World Made Use Wonder Machines Trade Complexes Financial Credit Experts Sci Fi Arrangements Knots Default Unwind Sci Fi Movie Credit Default Swap

Author:Richard Dooling

“I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.”

Opinion Military Connections Vietnam Cynical Default

Author:Sebastian Junger