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Quotes About Substitute

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.
~ Steve Ballmer
Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.
~ Eric Reid
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Faith is the best substitute for genius; in fact, it is closely allied to genius.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~ Oscar Wilde
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.
~ Oscar Wilde
They were a susitute. They were what you did when you couldn't have what you wanted.
~ Connie Willis
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.
~ Cornelia Funke
A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself.
~ Cornelia Funke
A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were not substitute for love itself.
~ Cornelia Funke
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
~ Walter Lippmann
Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?
~ Ward Churchill
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
~ Warren Buffett
Our main quarrel is with the author who makes his personal appearance a substitute for the artistic presentation of his subject, thinking that talking about the subject is equivalent to presenting it."6
~ Wayne C. Booth
I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Sometimes the only way to get rid of an unpleasant feeling is to replace it with another unpleasant feeling.
~ Chetan Bhagat
A limit should be so stated that it tells the child clearly (a) what constitutes unacceptable conduct; (b) what substitute will be accepted.
~ Haim G. Ginott
Leave a space and something will fill it.
~ lennon john ii
I packed my bags and went back to California and actually put wrestling behind me. I actually thought, well you know what, I thought it was crazy I made it once and to think I'm going to come back or whatever was unrealistic goal. So I went back to bodyguarding and substitute teaching.
~ Tyrus
I've got an England shirt hung up in my house from when I was an unused sub against Denmark. I cherish that.
~ Kyle Walker
It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.
~ J. Reuben Clark