Substitute Quotes

661 Substitute quotes by 507 unique authors

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers. — George Santayana
Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is… — George Arthur Buttrick
In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for… — Marshall McLuhan
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude...… — Adolf Hitler
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head. — Bertrand Russell
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man… — Bess Myerson
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. — Christopher Hampton
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… — Hannes Alfven
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. — Benjamin Cardozo
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a… — Noam Chomsky
We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. — J. C. R. Licklider
She may be cute, but she's just a substitute. — Smokey Robinson
If you record the sound of bacon in a frying pan and play it back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on an old… — Tom Waits
Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism. — Richard Rohr
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of… — Henry Hazlitt
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our… — Tullian Tchividjian
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion. — Gabriel Vahanian
The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His… — R C Sproul
Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. — T. Colin Campbell
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. — Sebastian Franck
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. — Andre Gide
Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There… — Peter Drucker
As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons… — Michael J Cohen
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard

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