Substitutes Quotes

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

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.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

... law is a substitute for love.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.

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.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war.

Creativity is not a substitute for competence.

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!

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love

In America, law substitutes for custom.

Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

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.

I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.