Quotes of: Poor-substitute Keyword

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Bill Cosby

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

Demonology: Stories

...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...

A Familiar Rain

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for .

The Antiquity Of Man

I won't be a substitute for what you cannot have. Especially not if it is my sister's shadow you mean to place me in.

Moonglow

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Tuesdays with Morrie

You're a rose, the perfect flower. I'm a carnation, just a cheaper substitute.

When You Don't Have a Choice

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Sebastian Franck

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Sam Walton

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea

Kazimir Malevich

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.

Neil Cross

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

David F. Houston

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.

Gerald R. Ford

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

Lewis Black

We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'

Adora Svitak

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influen...

Stephen Covey

I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.

Neil Gaiman

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

Hal Sparks

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Robert Runcie

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi