#replace

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#airline #belief #cash #comforting #control

Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable. ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#friendship #friendship-and-love #friendship-quotes #inspirational-quotes #irreplaceable

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them. ↗

— Brigham Young

#forget #new #ones #our #replace

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#beginning #body #cerebral #condition #image

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conservative #distinguished #enamored #evils #existing

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important. ↗

— David F. Houston

#barley #directly #ease #feed #food

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#declaration #failed #fails #government #indeed

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#anyone #comfort #console #contrary #destiny

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable. ↗

— Robin Trower

#get #guitar #i #instrument #irreplaceable