Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use… — Jack Herer Copy Share Image
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to… — Ricky Rudd Copy Share Image
A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the… — Geoffrey Zakarian Copy Share Image
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought. — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT… — Jack Jones Copy Share Image
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
