Top 132 Substitutes Quotes & Sayings

Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the water boy, and then me. That is the way it worked.

Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

For busy young adults, the lure of meal substitutes is simple - it's all about convenience - the level of effort to open a bottle or package is minimal, and the time from thinking you're hungry to eating is almost zero.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

In America, law substitutes for custom.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for grid electricity.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.