Quotes of: Substitute Keyword

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Paul Simon

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

John Green

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Elsa Maxwell

Chow Mo Wan: In love you can't bring on a substitute.

2046

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ambrose Bierce

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

Victor Grignard

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Julia Ward Howe

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A pile of hairy towels is not a passable substitute for a dog.

This Book Has No Title

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Brian Greene

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

Richard Morris

Politicians like to panic. They need activity. It's their substitute for achievement.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.

Nathan Fillion

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

Harvey Mackay

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

Edward McKendree Bounds

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Jim Webb

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Eddie Cahill

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

C. S. Lewis