Quotes About Replacement

Lung replacement was a common emergency surgery these days,

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.

In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure; gulls would peck at them but the sea stars simply grew replacement limbs.

No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

It sometimes feels as if we have temporarily solved the problem of scarcity and replaced it with the problem of excess.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

I'd been a substitute for something they both wanted and neither could have.

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you're not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

As it became clear that the growth in the global birth rate had peaked, Malthusian thinkers started to look to climate change as a replacement apocalypse for overpopulation and resource scarcity.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

Love will disappear only greedy selfishness will remain when people are born only from a test tube, and surrogate mothers. Surrogate love is replaced by lust. Love will die, only greedy lust will remain.

People will cheat you because they've found a great replacement. Same thing for trust, nothing is complete or eternal in this world.

A far more taxing problem for David was establishing himself within the existing band. Officially he was the second guitarist and additional vocalist. But Syd saw David as an interloper, while the rest of the band saw him as a potential replacement for Syd.

After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

I don't have anything bad to say about the guy they hired to replace me, Ronnie James Dio, who'd previously been with Rainbow . He's a great singer. Then again, he ain't me, and I ain't him. So I just wish they'd called the band Black Sabbath II .

She was Channel Ten's new replacement for the obnoxious Kristin Keller, a journalist who had never let the facts interfere with her reporting or derail her career trajectory.

I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

Lazy Dan left the building and was replaced by Alarmed Dan.

We must humbly admit we are sinners while we lay hold of the hope of our union with Christ. We don't simply suffer; we suffer as sinners with a deep propensity to run after god-replacements.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Mind you, he looks a bit out of it, gazing around in confusion, as if his sax player's brain has been removed and replaced with a drummer's.

Stars are attributed w/ intelligence they don't have, beauty they haven't worked for, loyaly & love they are incapable of reciprocating, and strength they do not possess. They are treated like a beautiful vase of cut flowers. When wilted, simply replaced w/ new blooms.