Replacing Quotes
137 quotes by 122 authors
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I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog…
— Isaac Marion
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Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn’t strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment…
— Jennifer Estep
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CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal…
— Neil Gaiman
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… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this…
— Miranda July
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Uh, what are you doing?†“Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out…
— Jennifer Estep
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If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters…
— Daniel Handler
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Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's…
— Meg Cabot
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She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?' Minho shook his head. 'No,…
— James Dashner
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Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should…
— Alain de Botton
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The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between…
— Orson Scott Card
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Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonÂresistance to evil.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right…
— Roger Maris
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Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God…
— Michael Shermer
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am…
— Rajneesh
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Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for some products, but…
— Michael Moss
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For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those…
— Don Kardong
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has…
— Gary Zukav
Who Wrote These Replacing Quotes
122 authors contributed a total of 137 Replacing Quotes, led by these top contributors: