Substitute Quotes

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

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

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

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.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

There's no substitute for guts.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

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

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.