Cheap Substitute Quotes

#1. A temptation is Satan's cheap substitute for the real gifts from heaven the Father has given us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#2. No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.

Donella Meadows

#3. Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

Hannah More

#4. Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

Richard Rohr

#5. Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Charles R. Swindoll

#6. Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.

Mary E. DeMuth

#7. Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

Thomas Gray

#8. Success is more than a desire; it's a behavior. Act accordingly.

Steve Maraboli

#9. I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

Bonnie Hunt

#10. George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.

Aleksandar Hemon

#11. One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don't. And it feels like someone's cut you open with a jagged piece of glass.

Maureen Medved

#12. The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as "swami", "baba" and "guru" are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

Richard Dawkins

#14. The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us.

John Steinbeck

#15. Beware of the love of women; beware of that ecstasy - that slow poison.

Ivan Turgenev