Supplanted Quotes

#1. It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.

Rainbow Rowell

#2. After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Martin Filler

#3. Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts - and that is a very good thing.

Thomas Piketty

#4. The day of the "go-getter" has passed. He has been supplanted by the "go-giver.

Napoleon Hill

#5. The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

Douglas Hofstadter

#6. Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Laozi

#7. Mail armor continued in general use till about the year 1300, when it was gradually supplanted by plate armor, or suits consisting of pieces or plates of solid iron, adapted to the different parts of the body.

Thomas Bulfinch

#8. As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

Jeff Koons

#9. The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

George Jean Nathan

#10. Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

William James

#11. First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

Thomas E. Mann

#12. thoroughly supplanted Mr. Knightley, and

Jane Austen

#13. I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Don Herold

#14. Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#15. Well, they got caught of course. The whole thing was so dunderheaded, how could they not? By November 1986, Reagan's "Secret Dealings with Iran" had supplanted the 1986 midterm election results on the front page of Time magazine.

Rachel Maddow

#16. The rancor I once bore recedes, supplanted by admiration and a sense even of loss at the mates we might have been and the times we might have shared.

Steven Pressfield

#17. A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Aristotle.

#18. Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

Ilana Mercer

#19. If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

Charles Baudelaire

#20. The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.

Alison Gopnik

#21. Forget family, or ethnic and religious groupings: corporations have supplanted all these as the primary structure of the modern tribe.

Tom McCarthy

#22. No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.

Shashi Tharoor

#23. I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.

Matthew Weiner

#24. The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Washington Irving

#25. On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Mark Steyn

#26. Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

Alexander Payne

#27. Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.

Paul Craig Roberts

#28. Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

Karen Salmansohn

#29. If you can get out there and say I'm going to ... I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it.

Dustin Hoffman

#30. People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

Oliver Platt

#31. If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep.

Lonely Island

#32. One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

Andrey Illarionov

#33. Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

Chris LeDoux

#34. It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers.

James Sinegal

#35. How can you make light of it? I says.
What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows? ... You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? I'm a survivor.

Moira Young

#36. We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror

Rumi

#37. I never thought I would end up with someone who wasn't possessed by music in the same way I am.

David Levithan

#38. He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering.

Liu Cixin