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Quotes About Replacement

technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels—especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas—needs to be progressively replaced without delay.
~ Raymond Barnett
I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.
~ Jim McKelvey
I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.
~ Gavin DeGraw
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.
~ James Surowiecki
You only have one brain. There's no replacement surgery for that.
~ Alex Smith
But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him.
~ Juliet Marillier
Whether it's a relationship or a toaster that's broken, they just replace it. You're bound to fall out and have arguments and you should work at getting the relationship back together, but nobody wants to any more.
~ Karl Pilkington
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
~ George Crabbe
Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.
~ Jean Kerr
Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place.
~ Amit Abraham
There is only so much space on any one person's hard drive, and old memories are prone to replacement by newer ones.
~ David Carr
Which men are most likely to be controlling? Those who are lower in mate value. These men ramp up heavy mate guarding because they believe they have lucked out in attracting a desirable woman and believe that she will be difficult or impossible to replace.
~ David M. Buss
When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.
~ Janette Oke
God is dead and I am his replacement.
~ J.D. Robb, Conspiracy in Death
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
~ Abraham Lincoln
What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.
~ Wei Jingsheng
I am not seeing myself in your eyes, I think someone has replaced me
~ Zarak Shakeel
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?
~ Steven Wright
I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.
~ Steven Wright
Obviously, the best way to remount a chain is to buy an entirely new, fully assembled bike in your favorite color. This is a foolproof method, but time-consuming and expensive.
~ Jamie Smith
I saw your shower curtain hit the back lawn. You'll need to replace that." "I have a spare," I said. "Why on earth would you have a spare shower curtain?" he asked. "In case I need to haul off a body," I said.
~ Jana Deleon
When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.
~ Janette Oke