Quotes About Substitute

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

Since she did not know the truth, she assumed a fashioned figure and prepared, with power and in beauty, a substitute for truth.

Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.

Such a sadness to that word, don't you think? Legacy. What a meaningless thing. All that work for a future in which they don't appear [...] What is legacy but the most empty and mediocre substitute for what we have. Steel and money and fancy concert halls don't give you immortality.

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

I'd been a substitute for something they both wanted and neither could have.

From my examination of many declining industries, the firms that seem to be the most objective about managing the decline process are those that also participate in the substitute industry. They have a clearer perception concerning the prospects of the substitute product and the threat of decline.

The best sodium-free salt substitute I've been able to find is something called Table Tasty.

Grapes, barley, and potatoes are best eaten in their nondistilled form, and Johnnie Walker is no substitute

Aren't goji berries expensive, though? In natural foods stores, they can go for twenty dollars a pound, but in Asian supermarkets, you can buy them as "Lycium" berries, and they're even cheaper than raisins. So, however you used to eat raisins—as a snack, in baked goods, in your breakfast cereal or oatmeal, whatever—I recommend you make the switch to gojis.

Cooking without oil is surprisingly easy. To keep foods from sticking, you can sauté in wine, sherry, broth, vinegar, or just plain water. For baking, I've successfully used green-light ingredients such as mashed bananas or avocado, soaked prunes, and even canned pumpkin to substitute for oil to provide a similar moistness.

You can even use ground flaxseeds to replace eggs in baking. For each egg in the recipe, whisk one tablespoon of ground flaxseeds with three tablespoons of water until the mixture becomes gooey. Unlike chicken eggs, "flax eggs" are not only cholesterol-free but they're also packed with soluble fiber to bring your cholesterol down11 instead of up.

Wait, I'm not done.. We didn't have a stuffed bear. And, since I'm not even sure what sort of beast a teddy bear is or where one would find it, I brought you a stuffed baldric instead. It will have to suffice." -Prince Quinn

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

Idolatria e' scambiare il mezzo con il fine.

Though Leibniz may have had special reasons for considering base two, neither this base nor any other had until recently been seriously considered as a substitute for base ten. In fact, aside from incidental uses of other bases in higher mathematics to facilitate an occasional proof, the subject of bases other than ten was regarded until recently as an intellectual amusement.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Like every alternative to Christianity, the mechanistic worldview was essentially a substitute religion, a mental idol.

An idol is anything in the created order that is put in the place of God.

When a "founding father's" remarks about "liberty" don't seem to make sense, substitute the word "property" and they do.

The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory, but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.

If I was not having much fun, David was certainly not having an easy time either. Roger was studiously ignoring any of David's suggestions, which is why he probably wanted Michael on board to augment the musical input. In many ways Michael was probably as much a substitute for David as for Rick or Bob, given his melodic strengths and his experience in writing, and arranging. It may well have been paranoia, but it did look as though David was being frozen out.