Top 25 Substitutes Quotes of 174

Porsche....there is no substitute

Porsche, Substitutes

We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’ but it is not that. What God offers us is an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life,’ and Christ is our Substitute within.

Watchman Nee

Christian, Thinking, Substitutes

Watchman Nee (2006). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.119, Hendrickson Publishers

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Nancy Pelosi

Nice, Action, Substitutes

"What's Next: Finance Bill?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 27, 2010.

And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Slave, Substitutes, Loses

There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Oil, Water, Substitutes

Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich (1991). “The population explosion”, Touchstone Books

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Martin Buber

Faces, Mask, Substitutes

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Jean Rousset

Art, Real, Substitutes

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Ted Williams

Hard Work, Substitutes, Come Up

Ted Williams, John Underwood (1969). “My turn at Bat: the story of my life”, Simon & Schuster

You must go or send a substitute.

Oswald J. Smith

Missionary, Motto, Substitutes

Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

Gabriel Vahanian

Community, Togetherness, Substitutes

Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

Ann Coulter

Hate, Competition, Substitutes

Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.247, Crown Forum

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

George Orwell

Thinking, Substitutes

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Grover Cleveland

Sound, Currency, Substitutes

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Oscar Wilde

Inspirational, Irony, Substitutes

Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence, Substitutes, Satyagraha

Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.89, Hackett Publishing

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.

Henry Sy

Hard Work, Easy, Substitutes

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Science, Common Sense, Substitutes

Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.229, Harvard University Press

There is no substitute for intuition.

Paul Klee

Intuition, Substitutes

Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

Alvin Toffler

Space, Information, Substitutes

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Elie Wiesel

Thinking, Few Words, Substitutes

"The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)". The Algemeiner Interview, www.algemeiner.com. September 23, 2011.