Substitute Quotes

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

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.

There is no substitute for victory.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

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.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.