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Quotes About Replacement

For it ends only to be replaced by fear
~ Emil M. Cioran
So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of our country may be endangered before he can be replaced by a man of sense. How hard, in order to save the country, to sustain a man who is incompetent.
~ George Saunders
Il n'y a pas de désordre, il y a substitution à un ordre attendu ou aimé d'un autre ordre dont on n'a que faire ou dont on a à souffrir.
~ Georges Canguilhem
If the worst comes to the worst I can always take Evelyn's place, can't I?
~ Georgette Heyer
There is nothing a worker resents more than to see some man taking his job. A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.
~ Charles M. Schwab
I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.
~ Matteo Salvini
The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.
~ John Battelle
I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
~ Peter Falk
Fighters don't just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.
~ Aljamain Sterling
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.
~ Terry Bradshaw
The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or simply discarded. The promise of the body is very firm and intact. It's the only promise we can count on, and we can't really count on it very much.
~ Scott Bradfield
I've still got my hands full training those giggling idiots out of every bad habit they picked up from you and replacing them with the bad habits I need.
~ Scott Lynch
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
~ Alice Meynell
If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.
~ Cal Ripken, Jr.
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
~ Robert Herrick
It's not the healthiest way to proceed. She merely replaced one dependency for another without confronting what lay at the heart of both.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Your blanket is all torn because it's old." "It is not old," Jane said. "But it is old," Jane's mother said. "We bought it when you were born. And then we had to wash it lots of times. And we washed it and washed it, and now it is all worn out. Look, you have a nice new big blanket. You don't need that old blanket. That old blanket is like a rag now, darling.
~ Arthur Miller
Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
As feminist scholar Carol Christ points out, "Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected, they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
~ Starhawk
Lupetto stanco morto in dormiveglia sente che il mondo tutti i giorni perde un pezzo prezioso, e bisogna subito sostituirlo
~ Stefano Benni
Like this week." "So you're Carl's replacement?" "I guess you could say that.
~ Stephen Dobyns
If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.
~ Avakruth
When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.
~ George R. R. Martin
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
~ Paulo Coelho