Replace Quotes
738 quotes by 640 authors
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In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that…
— Alberto Manguel
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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…
— Michael Ondaatje
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The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.
— Orson Scott Card
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Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved…
— Orson Scott Card
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Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
— Billy Collins
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When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it…
— Marianne Williamson
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If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in…
— Janet Evanovich
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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
— Francoise Sagan
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To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What…
— Douglas Adams
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS…
— Yann Martel
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So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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A clockwork heart can't replace the real thing.
— Dru Pagliassotti
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What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
— Elie Wiesel
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them.…
— E. M. Forster
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If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his…
— Khalil Gibran
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We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read…
— Daniel Pennac
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