Fallback Position Quotes & Sayings

She was in breach of that feminine law that states that no weakness may be shown by a woman to another woman without a sacrifice of equal value being made in return. — Zadie Smith

Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea. — Paul Kingsnorth

Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position. — Helen Fielding

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Above all, trust your instincts. If she's the right one, you'll know. If she's not, let her go and be thankful that she was an almost. — Rich Marcello

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen. — Lee Kuan Yew

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. — Robert South

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else. — Karl Rove

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back. — Margaret Atwood

I want to be a better man for you and because I love you so much, I actually believe I can be. — Emma Chase

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. — Laura Lippman

She'd tried to program it when they'd gotten into the Toyota, but it had refused to turn on. Once, the GPS had only spoken in a heavy German accent for weeks. Julian had decided it was possessed. — Cassandra Clare