Quotes About Substitute

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

There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

When my family was living in Tokyo, there was a year when we couldn't go back to the States for Thanksgiving, and we went to Seoul. Mandu is a highly satisfying substitute for turkey and trimmings.

Well I've obviously been a guest on most TV shows and spoken a little bit and that but I got the call to stand in for Paul O'Grady when he was off.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Light mayonnaise is like masturbation—it approximates the real thing but leaves you unfulfilled, ultimately leading to fantasies about diving face-first into a big-ass jar of the real stuff.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

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

Nothing, however, can be SUCCESSFULLY SUBSTITUTED FOR PLEASING CONDUCT.

As the American educator William L. Phelps noted, "Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness. You must furnish your mind with interesting thoughts and ideas. For an empty mind seeks pleasure as a substitute for happiness.

one can be easily substituted for the other.

Nature is all about the exploitation of optionality; it illustrates how optionality is a substitute for intelligence.

Where simplifications fail, causing the most damage, is when something nonlinear is simplified with the linear as a substitute. That is the most common Procrustean bed.

Political parties are hierarchical, they are designed in a way to substitute someone's own decision making with a well-defined protocol.

Propaganda has become a substitute for ideas and ideology. Knowledge is confused with how we are made to feel. Commercial brands are mistaken for expressions of individuality. And in this precipitous decline of values and literacy, among those who cannot read and those who have given up reading, fertile ground for a new totalitarianism is being seeded.

substitute hope for expectations, belief for knowledge.

Is that what happened? Standing in the cane, he was trying to catch a girl he was yet to see, but his heart knew all about, and me, holding on to him but wishing he was the golden boy I never saw either. Which means from the very beginning I was a substitute and so was he.

La neurosis es siempre un sustituto de los sufrimientos verdaderos...

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Sex is a poor substitute for love, but it's not a bad substitute for tennis.

La verdadera fe en Jesucristo es aceptarlo como Salvador, Sustituto, Garante y Señor. Es escoger su modo de vida. Es confiar en él y procurar vivir por fe conforme a sus mandamientos.