Quotes About Substitute

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people.

the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience'.

Even if we find literature the finest of substitutes, infinitely better than anything else yet invented, it still pays to recognise that substitute is what it might primarily be, that writing is in certain ways an act of very polite and artful revenge on a world too busy to listen and that we would never develop such fierce bookish ambitions if we had not first been let down by those we needed so much to rely upon.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

All that Christ did in both His life and death, He did in our place as our substitute.

Jesus thus becomes an idol; the belief in him becomes the substitute for one's own act of loving. In a simple, unconscious formula: "Christ does all the loving for us; we can go on in the pattern of the Greek hero, yet we are saved because the alienated 'faith' in Christ is a substitute for the imitation of Christ." That Christian belief is also a cheap cover for one's own rapacious attitude goes without saying.

Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.

what's the alternative? We can't just

Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.

Some time ago she had tried to substitute irony for longing, and had almost succeeded. That was why this alternative life so nearly appealed to her.

I love to bake. I like to bake with wheat and try not to eat sugar, so I use applesauce instead, which probably sounds really gross.

I like pasta; it's pretty good. I'll even substitute wheat pasta in there and make it more healthy.

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

I grew up in a predominantly white community - Hinsdale, Illinois - and given that, I feel blessed because I could still count my experiences with blatant racism on two hands. I thought racism was the substitute teacher picking on you because she assumes that you're a delinquent, and she doesn't know you have the highest score in the class.

giving up caffeine would be like cutting off gasoline from a car engine.

a last plea to the adult world, to do what grown-ups were meant to do, and impose order on chaos, substitute sanity for brutality

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

In figurative painting, in tonal music, in the cliché-ridden poems of heroic love and mythic glory, we find the same disease – the artist is not exploring the human heart but creating a puffed-up substitute, and then putting it on sale.