Quotes About Substitution

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.

Is it really her I love, I thought to myself as I looked again at Chloe reading on the sofa across the room, or simply an idea that collects itself around her mouth, her eyes, her face? In using her face as a guide to her soul, was I not perhaps guilty of mistaken metonymy, whereby an attribute of an entity is substituted for the entity itself (the crown for the monarchy, the wheel for the car, the White House for the US government, Chloe's angelic expression for Chloe…)?

Objects mimic in a material dimension what we require in a psychological one. We need to rearrange our minds but are lured towards new shelves. We buy a cashmere cardigan as a substitute for the counsel of friends. We

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another—which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Christ died for our sins. Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, took upon Himself a human nature and died a horrible death on our behalf. That is the reason for the cross. He suffered what we should have suffered. He died in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.

Man transfers his own passions and qualities to the idol. The more he impoverishes himself, the greater and stronger becomes the idol.

The easiest way to get rid of an unwanted conditioned response is to substitute a better response.

I soon realized we just swapped one hell for another.

Miss. Wells said she would have to replace him in the play, Toby said he would visit

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

No one would ever take Messi out of a match if the teams are evenly matched. But it can be done in matches where we take a big lead. This way, he can preserve his fitness.

Strike looked down at his own plate: where there should have been chips, there was only salad.

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin? What's the point of that, Miss? the waiter said. Tomorrow morning, Mabel said.

Within the human heart things have taken over. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution."6 We have mixed up what we serve and what we use. Sadly, many serve things and use God; the Scriptures instruct us to do just the opposite.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

At the end of the story, Dr Moffat shook his head sadly. "I'm afraid that the only conclusion we can reach is that this Dr Lubega is substituting a cheap generic for a costly drug but charging his patients the full cost." "And that would harm them?" she asked. "It could," said Dr Moffat. "Some of the generics are all right, but others do not necessarily do what they're meant to.

At the end of the story, Dr Moffat shook his head sadly. "I'm afraid that the only conclusion we can reach is that this Dr Lubega is substituting a cheap generic for a costly drug but charging his patients the full cost." "And that would harm them?" she asked. "It could," said Dr Moffat. "Some of the generics are all right, but others do not necessarily do what they're meant to. There's an issue of purity, you see.

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.