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Quotes About Substitution

I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.
~ Max Lucado
Precisely because substitutes are not direct rivals, they often come from unexpected places. This makes substitutes difficult to anticipate or even to see once they appear. The threat of substitution is especially tricky when it comes at one remove.
~ Joan Magretta
An ordinary woman Took my unique place Used my real name Left me a pseudonym
~ Anna Akhmatova
Everything and everyone was so hungry. The monster. The Barrow folk, buying everything up when danger lurked. The City people, clutching at pretty little enchanted things. Substituting magic for people. The shining people's ancestors, when the plague threatened, ignoring the warnings of the wizards, assuring themselves magic would keep them safe as they themselves brought death upon the entire island.
~ Anne Ursu
La sustitución no es tan difícil como creen. Llamo sustitución a la práctica que consiste en imaginarse gozando con un hombre A cuando se está copulando con un hombre B.
~ Fernando Pessoa
72] 381 Down the steps of my dreams and my weariness, descend from your unreality, descend and be my substitute for the world.
~ Fernando Pessoa
When I got a call from Hansal Mehta, the CEO of White Feathers, asking me to come for one of their films, I was very happy. I thought they'd have an interesting role for me. But when I got to know they just wanted me to stand in for Sanjay Dutt for some scenes, I decided to give this offer the pass.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
Modern football tends to bring out the narcissism of those who sit on the bench.
~ Roberto Baggio
realizing it, most people become deadened to their emotions. Early in their lives they turn their backs on themselves, their real desires and wants, and substitute self-nourishing habits and fantasies that only serve to deaden them. They
~ Robert W. Firestone
Y?jñavalkya immediately separated out the two essential points in every sacrificial act: substitution and the transposition from the visible to the realm of the mind.
~ Roberto Calasso
This leaves only two options: disintegration, or a new dictatorship ... no, there is a third, and I shall not be so pessimistic as to deny its possibility. The third option is the substitution of a new myth for the old one. Here are three such myths, all available from stock at short notice: liberty, equality, fraternity.
~ Salman Rushdie
but something was given in exchange for what was lost
~ Salman Rushdie
Et maintenant, dit l'homme inconnu, adieu bonté, humanité, reconnaissance... adieu à tous les sentiments qui épanouissent le coeur! ... Je me suis substitué à la Providence pour récompenser les bons... que le Dieu vengeur me cède sa place pour punir les méchants! (p. 396)
~ Alexandre Dumas
Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
~ David Platt
Jesus was treated on the cross as if He lived our life, so by grace we could be treated as if we lived His life. Hallelujah what a Savior!
~ Steve Camp
Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your cigarettes.
~ Anonymous
It's hard to play with any kind of confidence when you feel like if you miss one shot, if you make one mistake, you're getting pulled.
~ Jimmer Fredette
It is always possible to exchange one hell god for another.
~ Francesca Lia Block
You always have competition and great players who can play. The winner in that case is Paris Saint-Germain. With great players, even if a player is unavailable, another can come in and make the difference.
~ Lucas Moura
Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
~ James Mackintosh
Substitution . . . the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
~ Samuel Butler