Top 100 Substitute Quotes
#1. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another - their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
Ayn Rand
#2. Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
Elie Wiesel
#3. There's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.
John Irving
#5. Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?
Ward Churchill
#7. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#8. In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes for plum next time you make a tomato dish.
Jose Andres
#9. The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.
Elliott Abrams
#10. I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Maria Bartiromo
#11. The unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.
Lucy Freeman
#12. To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Smiley Blanton
#13. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
#14. That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.
Sigmund Freud
#16. The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on
and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter ...
H. Jay Dinshah
#17. One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision ... No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.
Ayn Rand
#20. If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old 33 1/3 recording. Almost exactly like that. You could substitute it for that sound.
Tom Waits
#21. Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.
Bernard Baruch
#22. The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.
- The power of your subconcious mind
Joseph Murphy
#23. Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
#24. 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
#25. Man's desire for God is bedded in his unconscious & seeks to satisfy itself in physical possession of another human. This necessarily is a passing, fading attachment in its sensuous aspects since it is a poor substitute for what the unconscious is after.
Flannery O'Connor
#26. The insistence on the knowledge of intellectual mysteries, either as an indispensable addition to or as a substitute for simple obedience to the claims of the Christian life, has always been a weakness of the Church.
R.H. Charles
#27. Arrogance is no substitute for experience,Fey.
C.L. Wilson
#28. We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#30. It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#31. We were created to be full. When we're not filled with the good things Christ came to bring us, we will grasp at anything as a substitute. An unsatisfied soul is an accident waiting to happen.
Beth Moore
#32. This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.
John Darnielle
#33. Even with God's help there is no substitute for the hard work.
Valentina
#34. The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
Georgia Harkness
#35. We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.
Marvin J. Ashton
#36. Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
Joanne Harris
#37. There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#38. Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913); Substitute money (fiat) makes Absolute States & Wars (Post-1913)
Orrin Woodward
#39. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.
Ellen G. White
#41. The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#42. There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.
Eli Broad
#43. The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The
Edward Gibbon
#44. The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#45. What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
Patti Page
#46. I know I'm not the woman he so obviously hungers for and even though I'm not who he wants, I find myself stupidly willing to be her substitute.
Ella Frank
#47. There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Iris Murdoch
#48. Since nobody is in a position to substitute his own value judgments for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people's aims and volitions. No man is qualified to declare what would make another man happier or less discontented.
Ludwig Von Mises
#49. If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.
Salman Rushdie
#50. Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience, and where this is absent even a strong faith which came miraculously as a gift of grace may depart equally miraculously. People
C. G. Jung
#51. Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality
Jean Rousset
#52. Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington
regardless of who wins the Presidency.
James Bovard
#53. No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
Bertrand Russell
#54. Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose
#55. What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.
Henri Nouwen
#57. The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.
C.S. Lewis
#58. The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
Mark Steyn
#59. The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
Freya Stark
#60. Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain
#61. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra
#62. You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.
Wendi Cassel
#63. A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
Beth Ditto
#64. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi
#66. There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.
Lilly Singh
#67. Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
#68. There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are - that is to say, your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
#69. A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
Karl Kraus
#70. The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
Roland Barthes
#71. Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.
Ann Coulter
#74. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
Henry James
#75. There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#76. Nature is the one thing for which there is no substitute! One
Anne Frank
#78. There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.
Jim Ratcliffe
#79. In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
Marshall McLuhan
#80. Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
Brooks Atkinson
#81. If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers
#82. The two men brushed shoulders in passing, in what Sophia assumed qualified as an acceptably masculine substitute for an embrace. How grateful she was to be female.
Tessa Dare
#83. I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.
Masta Killa
#84. Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
E.B. White
#85. There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.
Alan Moore
#86. Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
#87. Beloved, no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to wound him, no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him, for the punishment of our sin was borne by Christ, a full atonement was made for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#88. Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
George Eliot
#90. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
Charles Studd
#91. There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.
Karen Marie Moning
#92. When a flawlessly dressed woman steps out of an iridescent bubble and wants to know, like NOW if you'd like to become a substitute princess, do you:
a) run
b) faint
c) say yes!
Lindsey Leavitt
#94. I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake.
Lawrence Block
#95. I'm a substitute mom."
"You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.
Ilona Andrews
#96. God wants it that way. Even Jesus offered John as a substitute son to His mother as He hung on the cross. We have a familial obligation to take care of each other. Elizabeth had nothing to say in response.
Sarah Price
#97. FACT FILE Excess salt can cause water retention and increase blood pressure. Restrict salt to 6 g, roughly about 1 teaspoon, per day. Substitute extra salt with herbs and spices such as oregano, basil, coriander and parsley, or use seasonings like lemon, garlic or pepper.
Namita Jain
#98. Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
#100. The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
Charles Handy
