Quotes About Substitute

Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Like this week." "So you're Carl's replacement?" "I guess you could say that.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

I have a team of cleaners, in case one is off sick or goes on holiday.

Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked.

Everybody likes to drink a Coke once in a while; it's when we run out of everything else to drink and we're only left with Coke that we need to start worrying.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

We think words bring us close to people when they're gone but they're a comfort, not a substitute. Words can summon a memory but absence has no cure.

It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns for change but cannot imagine creating it herself.... If scapegoats feel pain, it is only the delegated pain of their originals.

Must have been the cat." "You don't have a cat," Sooz said. "I have you," Sebastian replied. "That's close enough.

Its symptom is always an attempt to circumvent reality by substituting men for ideas, the man-made for the metaphysical, favors for rights, special pull for merit—i.e., an attempt to reduce man's life to a small back-yard (or rat hole) exempt from the absolutism of reason.

You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear THAT pin on my chest…

covering for someone coming in from

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

It's all down to knowing how to do it, knowing how to concentrate your mind on a single point, knowing how to abstract yourself sufficiently to bring about the hallucination and therefore substitute the dream of reality for reality itself.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.

The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish." - The power of your subconcious mind

It's not easy to replace the best centre-back in the world.

Anybody can be replaced. I can be replaced.

I loved my nanny very much, but she was never a replacement for my mom in any way.