Quotes About Replacement

If you are lucky, you go to a team like Porto to mature. And if things don't go well for you, others take your place.

I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.

If you lose a player who scores seven, eight, or nine goals, you have to find another one.

Nichts tröstet, weil nichts ein Leben ersetzen kann.

They would call me 'The Cleaner' because I would replace boys who were real adolescents, and their voices completely changed, and they couldn't do the voices anymore.

You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

As Membij took the place of Carchemish, so Emesa or Homs took the place of Kadesh.

Do you think the Dear Leader's line should be read 'Love knows no replacement,' as if it's unthinkable to search for a substitute for love, or 'Love knows no replacement,' suggesting that love is sentient and is itself at a loss to comprehend its absence?

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

Robotics is never yet got to where live brains can be altogether replaced, except in bureaucrats.

No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

I don't think 'Shooting Stars' has ever successfully been replaced.

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but if you diminish the amount of sodium, people want sugar and fat instead.

The sock is punctured, but the shoe is new."

Part of the myth of Persian benevolence is the idea of an end to the exile in 539. But all that was ended was Neo-Babylonian hegemony, to be replaced by that of the Persians. (p. 65)

My own experience is that when I've lost something it was irreplaceable, it's usually replaced with something much better. The key to change is having faith that when we get rid of the old, something or someone even more magnificent will take its place.

Minho looked at Thomas. "I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.

Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?' Minho shook his head. 'No, we're just training you - someone'll want a break. Don't worry, it's been a while since a Runner was killed.' For some reason that last statement worried Thomas, though he hoped it didn't show on his face.

I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.

Talk to me, Richard. It isn't difficult. Move the teeth and agitate the tongue. Tell me news of the family. Am I superseded yet? Oh, Richard, a blush!

And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out.