Quotes of: Poor-substitute Keyword

Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.

Rohan Candappa

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Benjamin Cardozo

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Aesop

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

The Wise Man's Fear

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

John Chrysostom

The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

Hooked on Customers: The Five Habits of Legendary Customer-Centric Companies

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

Written in My Own Heart's Blood

I've been alone since my mom met Scott. He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina. A vacation is a poor substitute for love.

Ellen Hopkins

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

Paul Mellon

Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, an...

Craig Newmark

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Cesar Chavez

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'l...

A Single Man

There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps,...

We Need to Talk About Kevin

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

Lyman Bryson

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Bribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Caravan of Dreams