Quotes About Substitute

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

I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

La lectura no es un placer sustitutivo.

Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.

I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere.

He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.

If I don't start having service I'm going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

Time magazine, with their usual dummheit, once did a cover story entitled, "The Occult: A Substitute Faith." If this was all that could be found in occultism, I would not touch the subject with the proverbial ten-foot pole. The world already has enough "faith" to guarantee that the Idiots are always, as Ambrose Bierce said, the largest and most influential political party in any society. Occultism interests me, not as a substitute faith, but as a substitute for faith.

Fungibility, n. The tendency of everything to be completely interchangeable with money. Health, for instance.

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

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.