Replacements Quotes

All dancing is a replacement for sex.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

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

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.

Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.

It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

God is dead and I am his replacement.

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.