Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax. — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need. — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Substitutes are always present, but they are easy to overlook because they may appear to be very different from the industry’s product… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see therapy as a substitute for friendship. I see it as a commentary on the impersonality of society that people have… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you needwhen you can… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future.… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
“I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image