logo

Quotes About Replaced

Well, contemplation is always a gift, right? So you have to ask for it. It is a thing for which to beg, honestly, because it seems to me when we enter upon the contemplative gaze it is a sliver of revelation. We ask God to show us the beauty of the familiar, the complexity behind the obvious, and the struggle behind repeated failures, the patterns of behavior, because in the end the dysfunctions around us are not ever really conquered, they fade away and are replaced by new ones.
~ Walter Wagner
Strangely enough, he felt his fear whisked away like a swarm of gnats caught in the wind, replaced by an intense curiosity.
~ James Dashner
Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. ...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side... No? said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. Really? Oh yes, said Marvin, I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens. I can imagine.
~ Douglas Adams
Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.
~ Alan Gibbons
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
~ Robert T. Bakker
We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.
~ John Redwood
And sometimes all that happened was that the misleading old euphemisms were replaced by the misleading new clichés.
~ Julian Barnes
The phonograph box in the parlor became a new venue; for many people, it replaced the concert hall or the club.
~ David Byrne
Investors and senior managers all too often take the view that resources are fungible and easily replaced.
~ David J. Anderson
But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
~ Ted Dekker
Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
~ Kevin Spacey
He decimated many Democratic arguments but replaced them with virtually nothing. To expose Franklin Pierce's "ludicrous and laughable" record as a brigadier general in the Mexican War
~ David S. Reynolds
Toy Story we found, sorta by accident, because we didnt know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.
~ Pete Docter
When you are not winning, the coach is more or less the weakest person in the team who can be replaced.
~ Michael Ballack
I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.
~ Scott Turow
Attitude?" I said. "After I got you this lucrative gig?" "Go track down a criminal," Marty said. "Okay," I said. Adele smiled at me, though I think Marty had replaced me in her affections, or Vinnie, or maybe both. Inconstancy, thy name is Adele.
~ Robert B. Parker
Elizabeth saw that in politics, problems are rarely solved; they are only replaced by other, more pressing ones.
~ Lacey Baldwin Smith
I'm a doll that they've outgrown.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted.
~ John Gurdon
It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment To be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down, And those parts which can't be salvaged Are replaced with other GI parts, that's all.
~ Rolando Hinojosa
Confederate forces were being whittled down and could not be replaced by the South's smaller population.
~ Ron Chernow
So it always is with mercenaries. Easily hired, even more easily discharged and never missed once they are gone.' Friendly
~ Joe Abercrombie
The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
~ Patrick Stewart
Theories in the natural sciences which have been replaced by others which do the same job better are of no interest to the current practice of science. This cannot be the case where those theories have helped to constitute what they interpret or explicate. The
~ Anthony Giddens