Substitutes Quotes

647 Substitutes quotes by 488 unique authors

I reject your reality and substitute my own. — Adam Savage
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. — George Bernard Shaw
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. — Paul Simon
Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. — Lamar S. Smith
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. — Steven Spielberg
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and… — William Howard Taft
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by… — Michael Eric Dyson
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. — Oscar Wilde
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to… — James Beard
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar… — Norman Douglas
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better. — William Faulkner
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham
If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a… — John Bytheway
To do well those thing which God ordained to be the common lot of all man-kind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father… — Joseph Fielding Smith
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a… — Virginia Woolf
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So… — Ayn Rand

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