#replace

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#been #cold #cold weather #comfortable #days

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#anything #bit #california #city #demolished

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets. ↗

— Troy Dumais

#get #old #regrets #replace #until

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#driver #only #replace #take #tool

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#art #artist #authentic #conform #every

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#christmas #claus #empty #fireplace #going

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#also #compulsory #constitution #current #gradually

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#live #philosophy #replaced #which #world

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.' ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#cancer #done #drinking #had #hand