Top 100 Quotes About Substitutes
#1. Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Agnes De Mille
#2. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#3. The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.
Eric Hoffer
#4. He'd told her how orphaned birds would sometimes accept the most pathetic substitutes for their mothers - a pullover, a hot-water bottle, an armpit, or even a paper airplane - anything rather than nothing, but preferably something that moved.
Julia Gregson
#5. In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.
Thomas Sowell
#8. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased
the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.
Raymond Chandler
#9. Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.
Bernard Baruch
#10. For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.
George Schaller
#11. We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#12. Even with God's help there is no substitute for the hard work.
Valentina
#13. There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#14. True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.
Peter Kreeft
#15. Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike - the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests - were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love -
Rabindranath Tagore
#16. Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.
Pat Buchanan
#17. No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Bertrand Russell
#18. Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
James Mackintosh
#19. The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
Freya Stark
#20. (Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding.
Hamilton Basso
#21. A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
Karl Kraus
#22. Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.
Ann Coulter
#24. The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.
Michael J. Saylor
#25. Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
John Chrysostom
#26. But this is not a book about robots. Rather, it is about how we are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face.
Sherry Turkle
#27. The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
Charles Handy
#28. God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
Adrian Rogers
#29. This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.
Bernd Becher
#30. Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
Tracy McMillan
#32. We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
Jimmy Carter
#33. Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.
W. Edwards Deming
#34. Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.
Henry George
#35. Platitudes are poor substitutes for emotions, this negative space hollowed out and without words. I know the shape of you and it has no name. I know the sound of you and the smell of you and the touch and sight and taste of you. But language departed the same day you did, leaving my mouth empty.
Tania De Rozario
#37. Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable, and others to be quite unreliable.
Hilary Kornblith
#38. In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
Leon Trotsky
#40. There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.
Maria Montessori
#41. Carl Jung put it this way: "The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." With
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#42. As in all addiction, we are in denial about the degree to which we are controlled by our god-substitutes.
Timothy Keller
#43. Father has been home a lot lately. There's nothing for him to do at the office; it must be awful to feel you're not needed. Mr. Kleiman has taken over Opekta, and Mr. Kugler, Gies & Co., the company dealing in spices and spice substitutes that was set up in 1941. A few days
Anne Frank
#44. There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
Charles Dickens
#46. The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.
Janet Malcolm
#48. Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
Matthew Scully
#49. Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#50. If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.
Dennis Prager
#51. There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.
Robert A. Cook
#52. Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and even at the first instant their very transformation disengages a feeling of joy.
Marcel Proust
#53. There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
Josh Billings
#54. Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.
Neale Donald Walsch
#55. The history of breast milk substitutes is a reminder that they've always been needed, but only in very recent human history has science allowed for a safe alternative. That there is even a debate over breast versus bottle is made possible by science.
Alice Callahan
#56. Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.
Ludwig Von Mises
#57. Patrick Carnes wrote an apt description of the addict's behavior: "The addict substitutes a sick relationship to an event or a process for a healthy relationship with others. The addict's relationship with a mood-altering experience becomes central to his life" (Carnes 2001, 14).
George Collins
#58. Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
Eric Hoffer
#59. Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.
Robert Todd Carroll
#60. You can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in ...
John Geddes
#61. As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
Dwight Morrow
#62. Christians have a way of crouching in their own culture instead of penetrating the one they live in with the gospel. Too many migrate to a faith that elevates issue debate and substitutes a set of personal preferences for the glorious gospel.
James MacDonald
#63. You share a toast with me:
Here's to seasonal
madness, part-time
relatives, and
substitutes for love.
Ellen Hopkins
#64. Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
Zig Ziglar
#65. Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.
Eric S. Raymond
#66. I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.
Richard M. Nixon
#67. Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.
Edmund White
#69. You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face. - Rob Delaney It
Austin Kleon
#70. When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.
Elly Griffiths
#71. Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.
Eric Berne
#72. Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.
Fred C. Koch
#74. By now the night tastes of nothing but ash. But nicotine substitutes for food, nicotine substitutes for sleep, and there is so little time left for the future, once all the demands of the present are taken care of.
Francis Spufford
#76. Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Harriet Lerner
#77. The things we think we want are often substitutes for what we really want, and the pleasures we seek are less than the joy that they distract us from.
Charles Eisenstein
#78. Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.
John Henry Newman
#79. It is quite easy to allow the gospel to become overshadowed by our own efforts to grow spiritually. Spiritual disciplines serve as gateways to cherishing the gospel, not as substitutes for the gospel.
Gloria Furman
#80. I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
Robert Charles Wilson
#81. Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.
Brian Kernighan
#82. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
John Fowles
#83. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
#84. Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
Mark R. Levin
#85. Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.
Herman E. Daly
#86. The first thing I see is the gluten-free section, filled with crackers and bread made from various wheat substitutes such as cardboard and sawdust. I skip this aisle because I'm not rich enough to have dietary restrictions.
Anonymous
#87. Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
Alvin Toffler
#89. The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth.
those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on.
Wallace Stegner
#90. Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Stephen Covey
#92. Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
William Cowper
#93. The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.
Harold Laski
#94. Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
George Santayana
#95. The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
Calvin Coolidge
#96. Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
Augustus William Hare
#97. There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.
Al Oerter
#98. If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.
Bruno Maag
#99. Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
Eric Hoffer
#100. Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body
we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!
Max Frisch
