Substitutes Quotes · Page 11

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

— Harold Laski

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

— Henry James

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

— Jean Rousset

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Gene Roddenberry

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

— E. B. White

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are…

— Ayn Rand

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more…

— Lucy Freeman

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I…

— Hans Arp

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

— Fred Thompson

Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and…

— William Howard Taft

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a…

— Henry Adams

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of…

— James F. Cooper

We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will…

— Selma Fraiberg

Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to…

— Alain de Botton

The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode…

— Walter Lippmann

While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human…

— Calvin Coolidge

Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back.…

— Rajneesh

Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and…

— G. Frank Lawlis

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute…

— Anonymous

Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down…

— Thomas Sowell

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

— Bill Nye

The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.

— Louis Cozolino

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

— Brennan Manning

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

— Daryl Gregory

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

— Douglas MacArthur

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

— Anonymous

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

— Henri Lefebvre

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

— Margaret Thatcher

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

— Alvin Toffler

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

— Andy Grove

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

— Adam Hochschild

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

— Mitch Albom

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

— Steven Spielberg

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

— Dwight Morrow

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

— Sholom Aleichem