Quotes of: Substitute Keyword

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

Stephen Gaghan

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

Tracy McMillan

Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us.

Amy Kaufman Burk

I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don't shave that often.

Andrew Luck

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

Vint Cerf

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

Walter Lippmann

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 new activity.

William Howard Taft

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

A brick could be used as a substitute for the brother I never had. It seems ridiculous, but I’ve always wanted a brother who was smarter than the average politician. 

Blanket

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

J. G. Ballard

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

Adolf Galland

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

Nate Silver

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Nikola Tesla

Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.

Spencer W. Kimball

Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.

Leland Ryken

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

Rosser Reeves

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

Michael J. Saylor