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Quotes About Replacement

It would take a hell of a man to replace no man at all.
~ Anna Quindlen
It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.
~ Anna Quindlen
What happened to him? (Lioness) He pissed me off. (Savitar) Why hasn't one of the other jaguars taken his place? (Lioness) He pissed me off...big time. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.
~ David Brin
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.
~ Shannon Hale
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
My father replaced the handle and I replaced the head,' he said. 'But otherwise, it's completely original.
~ John Flanagan
Does or does not the Word of God, in both the Old Testament Scriptures (Jer. 31) and the New Testament Scriptures (Heb. 8), clearly state in plain words that (1) there is indeed both a New and an Old Covenant, and further, that (2) the New Covenant has replaced and totally done away with the Old Covenant (Heb. 8:6-13)?
~ John G. Reisinger
We must see that Moses is finished as a lawgiver just as Aaron is finished as a priest. Aaron was replaced with a new high priest who is greater and better (Heb. 6:20-8:6). Moses has been replaced with a new lawgiver who is greater and better. The covenant of law that God gave through Moses has been replaced with a new covenant that is greater and better, simply because the old one was obsolete (Heb. 8:6-13).
~ John G. Reisinger
Our Lord, the Son in whom God has spoken full and final truth (Heb. 1:1-3), has replaced Moses, the servant through whom God had spoken partial and preparatory truth.
~ John G. Reisinger
Much of leadership is knowing whom to select, whom to encourage, whom to restrain, and whom to replace.
~ Eliot A. Cohen
Women grieve, and men replace.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Civilizations do not then "fall"—they are merely replaced by another culture, which is the product of the new population.
~ Arthur Kemp
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
~ August Strindberg
An interesting man. He was a last minute replacement as Bush's running mate, when the original candidate managed to say Thy Kingdom Cunt at a prayer breakfast.
~ Garth Ennis
What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process.
~ George Bernard Shaw
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
~ Alexander Cockburn
If I buy something new - a piece of clothing, a tie, a shirt, a suit - something old has to go. That's the way I avoid clutter, crammed closets and drawers. It keeps things in balance, and it really works.
~ Matt Lauer
Like they say: one window pane goes, another comes in its place.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Come to think of it—what are we going to do with our old cantor? We just got a new one, you know. We needed him like a hole in the head.
~ Sholem Aleichem
we can never give up; we only exchange one thing for another
~ Sigmund Freud
Du erinnerst dich doch bestimmt, dass ich gesagt habe, ein Ersatzkonvoi sei unterwegs zum Stützpunkt, nicht wahr? Also hättest du mich nicht von der Latrine holen und mir einen besonders guten Schiss verderben sollen. - Macro
~ Simon Scarrow
A few of the people I had known were gone—even in that short time—back to the Midwest or to Times Square, or had been busted, or moved to Coffee Andy's in Hollywood, or gone to Golden Miami. They had disappeared, one day: One day youre here and thats fine, and the next day your gone and thats fine too, and someone has that very day come in to take your place whatever it might have been.
~ John Rechy
Years now without coffee, without alcohol, without tobacco. ...Luckily, there is anxiety, which usefully replaces the strongest stimulants.
~ Emil M. Cioran