Quotes About Substitute

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

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

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.

Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company included. We set ourselves up as little gods – all-knowing, all-healing. People resent that and rightly. We have polite labels for our failures. We agree among ourselves that anything bearing one of those labels is, of course, incurable.' Dr

Would you call it a conversation if the other person is silent and, to keep up the appearance of a conversation, you try to substitute for him, and so imitate him, and so parody him, and so parody yourself.

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We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'

Joseph Brodsky wrote: "If there is any substitute for love, it's memory. To memorize, then, is to restore intimacy." The restoration of intimacy is more than an act of love; it is an attempt, by writing down a lost world before it dissolves, to bring memory closer to truth. It

Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.

the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation for political conservatism—has become the last outpost of Big Government paternalism in the United States. In

La religion drapeautique remplaça promptement la céleste.

In the succinctly elegant words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."2

words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

But the substitute itself ultimately becomes more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid.

What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. Picture Satan in a business suit, with well-groomed horns and a superbly switching tail, sitting at his huge executive's desk, thinking, 'Aha! If I can substitute images for reality I can get a lot more people under my domination.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

Wrong. Christ was not our substitute but our representative, and since His saving passion was representative, it doesn't exempt us from suffering but rather endows our suffering with divine power and redemptive value.

Since, pending more evidence, there is no reason to suppose that the so-called transitional objects play any special role in a child's development, cognitive or other, a more appropriate term for them would be simply 'substitute objects'.

This far, indeed, we differ from each other, in that everyone appropriates to himself some peculiar error; but we are all alike in this, that we substitute monstrous fictions for the one living and true God—

We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.

Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack.

Man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress.