Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.
Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked.
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.
The substitute for knowledge is money.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
There's no substitute for guts.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it for them to believe in him, for he would have substituted sight for faith. That is why he does not take us down from our crosses: so that we do not substitute feelings and experiences for ...
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictio...
There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
My father taught me how to substitute realities.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
There is no substitute for victory.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
