Substitutes Quotes - Page 2

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

There is no substitute for work.

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.

A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

There is no substitute for guts.

But rules cannot substitute for character.

She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

The Bible is not God, nor is it a substitute for God, and to treat it as if it were God or a surrogate of God is to treat it in the very way that it itself condemns over and over again.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.