Quotes About Substitute

Indeed, the life of facts proved no bad substitute for the facts of life.

Unfortunately, we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.

shareholder wealth" is the standard "off-the-shelf" purpose for those organizations that have not yet identified their true core purpose. It is a substitute ideology, and a weak substitute at that. Listen to people in great organizations talk about their achievements and you'll hear very little about earnings per share.

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

more likely that tattooing the name is a substitute for solicitude rather than evidence of it.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.

I don't want to be a substitute teacher who forces teenagers to shake hands with the dead. All they want to do is flirt and joke and get through the day.

Lo que habían intercambiado no era amor; Rob lo sabía. Sin embargo, había sido tan buen sustito del amor

And the kid is stupid enough to think a picture or a sculpture or a story could somehow replace anybody you love.

Having to say 'so and so can't be with us tonight, but I would like to accept this murder charge on his behalf' would have been rather anticlimactic.

The average age of our bench is deceased.

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

In sum, the 12 steps are not a road to recovery, let alone the road to recovery. They are, instead, a road to a substitute dependency—a dependency upon AA rather than upon alcohol.

All the women knitted. They knitted worthless things; but, the mechanical work was a mechanical substitute for eating and drinking; the hands moved for the jaws and the digestive apparatus: if the bony fingers had been still, the stomachs would have been more famine-pinched.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

With exceptions so rare that it is hard to remember one, textbooks are to books as powdered food supplements are to a good, balanced meal.

stuff it up with anything rather than have a void.

long-legged Yankee lies and substitute approved books by Southern writers.

Um, hi." I finally squeak out a few words. "The other day at school, we had this substitute teacher. Very tough. Sort of like Mrs. Darth Vader. Had the heavy breathing, the deep voice. During roll call, she said, 'Are you chewing gum, young man?' And I said, 'No, I'm Jamie Grimm.' " I wait (for what seems like hours) and, yes, the audience kind of chuckles. It's not a huge laugh, but it's a start. Okay.

It's decaf. Just terrible. A memory of real coffee