Substitute Quotes

661 Substitute quotes by 507 unique authors

There's no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and working with the people who can make a difference. They get the benefit of your participation… — Michael Milken
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin… — Abraham Lincoln
It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no… — J. Reuben Clark
Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated… — John Ricard
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute… — C.S. Lewis
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession… — Conrad Black
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel… — William James
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to… — Albert Einstein
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed… — Eli Broad
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to… — Alexander Hamilton
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. — Ambrose Bierce
Sympathy is no substitute for action. — David Livingstone
You must go or send a substitute. — Oswald J. Smith
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic… — Florence King
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another… — Walter Lippmann
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally… — Hannah Arendt
The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music… — David Crosby
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann
Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate,… — Spiro T. Agnew
The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough. — Louis Cozolino
Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs — Shakira
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. — Howard Zinn
Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience. — Lotte Lenya

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