Substitute Quotes

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

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.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

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.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

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

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

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

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

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.

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

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.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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.'

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.

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.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.