Substitute Quotes

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

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

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

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

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.

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

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

There is no substitute for hard work.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

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.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

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