Top 100 Substitute Quotes
#1. Substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one
Alexander McCall Smith
#2. Charity, as a supplement to justice, should be applauded. But charity as a substitute for justice is neither charity nor justice. It is cruelty. The
Sarah Kendzior
#3. It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.
J. Reuben Clark
#4. Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
David Mitchell
#5. The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked ...
H.L. Mencken
#6. You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
Susan Neiman
#7. Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.
John Stossel
#8. To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
George Santayana
#9. From the beginning of her development, Sylvia - or Sivvy, as her family called her - came to associate words as a substitute for love
Andrew Wilson
#10. Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
Terry Teachout
#11. As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.
Richard Whately
#12. There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.
Robert B. Parker
#13. People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God.
Francis Howgill
#14. Shine the light of awareness on your disempowering beliefs and choose to substitute them with empowering beliefs. This way you will choose love over fear and your path to purpose becomes clear.
Sharon Kirstin
#15. In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
Henri Lefebvre
#16. And give to the orphans their properties and do not substitute the defective [of your own] for the good [of theirs]. And do not consume their properties into your own. Indeed, that is ever a great sin. Quran The Women 4 :2
Qur'an
#17. No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.
Scott Kahn
#18. In the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other.
Marcia Falk
#19. Agave nectar is a good substitute for refined sugars. It has a relatively low glycaemic index, which means it doesn't cause quick rises in blood sugar levels. It also has a nice, mild flavour.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#20. Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
Clifford Stoll
#21. Dunn's Law:
Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.
Arthur Bloch
#22. In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory ...
Erwin Schrodinger
#23. A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.
P. J. O'Rourke
#24. Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
Ben Shahn
#26. That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.
Ravi Zacharias
#27. Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#28. If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
Barbara Tuchman
#29. Divine sovereignty is not a substitute for human responsibility.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#30. There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
Walter Camp
#31. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it ... a contented spirit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#33. I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little. Outward circumstances are no substitute for inner experience.
C. G. Jung
#34. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
Walt Kelly
#35. An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people.
Adam Gopnik
#36. Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#37. I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'
Chris Van Allsburg
#38. Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
George W. Romney
#39. 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
#40. Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
Anne Rice
#41. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
#43. But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
Walter Lippmann
#45. I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it's not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you're doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it's bigger than your own life.
Tom Hanks
#46. Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#48. Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#49. There is really no substitute for a well thought out and perfectly executed plan of action.
Steven Redhead
#50. Religion?" "The fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde
#51. The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.
Henri Rousseau
#52. To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
Virginia Woolf
#53. I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Candice Bergen
#54. I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton
#55. There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca
#56. There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
Heather Bresch
#57. You can have the whole world looking out for you, Pari, but it is not a substitute for that one special person to share your life with.
Farahad Zama
#58. Texting is a sex toy: pleasurable but a substitute for the real thing. Love has a face. Video chatting is good, but who's comfortable enough to share their "bed hair"? Love isn't about pat answers.
Chila Woychik
#59. Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I saw that my teenage craving had not really been for food. That ravenous desire had been a yearning for love, attention, appreciation. Food had merely been my substitute.
Ruth Reichl
#60. A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
Craig Newmark
#61. Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!
Alistair Begg
#62. Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.
Bertrand Russell
#64. I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.
Stephen Gaghan
#65. No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.
Pope Pius XI
#66. Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror.
Karen Russell
#67. Objects mimic in a material dimension what we require in a psychological one. We need to rearrange our minds but are lured towards new shelves. We buy a cashmere cardigan as a substitute for the counsel of friends. We
Alain De Botton
#68. There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
Zach Galligan
#69. To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven
#70. The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.
Timothy Mo
#71. In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.
Bill Anderson
#73. The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.
Chester W. Nimitz
#74. Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.
Flora Thompson
#76. The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
Ahmed Yassin
#77. Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action
Mae West
#78. I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
Steven Spielberg
#79. You can easily substitute the intellect for true devotion. Devotion comes from the heart, and from the will. The intellect, you can cerebrally answer things, but you make a big mistake when that happens.
Ravi Zacharias
#80. In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
Harvey MacKay
#81. Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill
#82. About a year ago, an entire suburb in this man's jurisdiction turned from the police and erected a substitute agency. To all intents and purposes, several thousand people here have severed their relationship with the South African Police Service. He appears not to have noticed.
Jonny Steinberg
#83. Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.
Margaret Thatcher
#84. When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.
Bill Loguidice
#85. A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
Marshall McLuhan
#86. In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.
Hugh Laurie
#87. The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.
Wilhelm Reich
#88. Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
Nancy Pearcey
#89. I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.
Kenneth Clark
#91. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
#92. For the sentimentalism and emotionalism which have infested our country, we should substitute hard common sense. Pacific habits do not insure peace or immunity from national insult and aggression.
Douglas MacArthur
#93. Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures?
L.M. Montgomery
#94. Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them ... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.
Ken Kesey
#95. When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.
Mike Ditka
#96. Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.
Benjamin Wood
#98. Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to overwhelm their adversaries, the GOP uses huge campaign budgets as a substitute for strategy, thought or issues.
Dick Morris
#99. Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Elsa Maxwell
#100. And I know you thought a lot of him. I realize I'm hardly the perfect substitute, but like I said, the way things are going maybe it's stupid to wait for perfection. Suddenly he was looking directly at her and Cassie saw something in his mahogany eyes she'd never seen before.
L.J.Smith
