Quotes About Substitute

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Religion? The fashionable substitute for belief.

Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love

It calls for sophisticated handling. We shall have to think this over. I've been thinking it over for hours. Yes, but you've got one of those cheap substitute brains which are never any good. It will be different when a man like me starts giving it the cream of his intellect.

Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live, am unable to live.

Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live, am unable to live. All life, to me, is a search for the balanced diet, which does not exist. For me. Alas, I am twenty-nine, and I cannot stand more than five days of the life I have invented as the most ideal. May 17, 1950

I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

No substitute for the living, perhaps, but I wasn't given a choice. I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down in a heap, lamenting what I'd lost. The ghosts whispered to me, telling me to go on.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. This couldn't be it. It had been diverted elsewhere, to somebody else, and he'd been issued this shitty substitute faux life instead

Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.

if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice]

Indeed, confident assurances and promises of fortune, when whispered into the right ears, often serve as substitutes for thinking at all.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. —Bill Raeder

Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.

El pensamiento es útil cuando provoca una acción, y un obstáculo cuando sustituye a la acción. —BILL RAEDER