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Quotes About Substitution

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
~ Julia Ward Howe
When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
~ Irwin Winkler
The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt to make someone or something live again. Both poet and shaman make a model that stands for the whole. Substitution, symbolic substitution. The mind conceives that something lived, or might live. Implicit is the demand to understand. The memorial that is ward and warning. Without these ancient springs poems are merely more words.
~ Frank Bidart
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
~ Frans de Waal
He said you're going to be identified as His disciples, not because of your church-going, Bible-toting, or song-singing. No, you'll be identified as His by one sign only: the deep and delicate respect for one another, the cordial love impregnated with reverence for the sacred dimension of the human personality because of the mysterious substitution of Christ for the Christian.
~ Brennan Manning
I really focus on natural products, so I love using unrefined products instead of refined ones. I swap white rice for brown rice or quinoa. I use brown rice pasta instead of regular pasta, nut milk or oat milk instead of dairy milk, and coconut yogurt instead of cows' yoghurt, etc.
~ Ella Woodward
Commit to not going back to the store no matter what. If you run out of something like a spice or an accompanying vegetable, substitute with something else.
~ Steve Economides
Okay, here's the tough part, but we know you can do it. If you run out of an ingredient or forget an item, substitute it with something else, borrow it from a neighbor, or make a different meal—just don't go back to the store. You can do it—it may take some time to perfect your system, but eventually it will be as easy as breathing.
~ Steve Economides
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.
~ George Shearing
Aquí, estamos reorganizando las partículas de nuestras ecuaciones de manera que los fermiones se intercambian por bosones, y viceversa. Esto se convierte en el punto central de la teoría de cuerdas, así que todas las partículas del universo se pueden sustituir unas por otras.
~ Michio Kaku
Une joie su laquelle pèse l'obligation de remplacer d'autres joies est bien vite une joie usée
~ Milan Kundera
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Well, they say nature hates a vacuum. - That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
~ Tennessee Williams
BRICK: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. BIG DADDY: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
~ Tennessee Williams
I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but  .  .  . okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you  .  .  . for you.
~ Karen Chance
You can always put balsamic vinaigrette on salted meat and sort of pretend it's a salad.
~ Karen Russell
Who is that?" "Your replacement." "You replaced me with a shaved poodle?" "He's got mad skills.
~ Ilona Andrews
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
~ Charles D. Broad
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.
~ Steven Soderbergh
Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
~ Eric Hoffer
Jesus was guilty of nothing. Yet on the cross, the Father treated Him as if He had committed personally every sin ever committed by every individual who would ever believe. Though He was blameless, He faced the full fury of God's wrath, enduring the penalty of sin on behalf of those He came to save. In this way, the sinless Son of God became the perfect substitute for the sinful sons of men.
~ Steven J. Lawson
I sang along, but I could not help noticing that if you replaced the word Jesus with Great Leader, the content was not so different from some of the North Korean songs my students chanted several times each day. In both groups, singing was a joyful, collective ritual from which they took strength.
~ Suki Kim
During the holiday season, try substituting a cranberry and club soda spritzer, or water with lemon or lime instead of an alcoholic beverage. You'll be saving calories, and reducing your cancer risk.
~ Margaret Cuomo