Substitute Quotations

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

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I like pasta; it's pretty good. I'll even substitute wheat pasta in there and make it more healthy.

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

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress and a substitute schoolteacher, off and on. So, that all adds up to no money.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

While there's no substitute for real experience, I believe it helps to hear and share stories of resourcefulness in action - almost like case studies in school.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

We are still looking for opportunities in plantation, in palm oil. When it is bad, you want to buy because, in the long term, I am confident that plantation is a good bet. To me, it is always in demand; there is no substitute yet for palm oil.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

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

We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence.

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

What they probably would do is create a substitute document for it, ... to put through the paper processing system.

We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.

Words here are no substitute for action in the region, ... encourages extremism and diverts attention from the task at hand.

Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

The only proposal on the table according to the procedure is American's, and I'm not going to substitute my judgment for that of the (TWA) board of directors,

The fact is that you don't want the consumer to get bored with your product or they'll easily substitute it with something else.

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

Many (such teachers) came and went into schools as substitute teachers. If substitute teachers did not seek certification, they probably intended to go back.

So it's not meant to substitute for the trailers, but it's meant to recognize the fact that as we speak not everybody can or necessarily wants to get into trailers,

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, ''Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

No credible analysis of an accounting failure would suggest that the appropriate role of the chief executive officer was to substitute his own accounting judgments for those of the professionals.

One should, therefore, in the interests of democracy itself seek to substitute the doctrine of the right man for the doctrine of the rights of man.

If this is true, it's another slap at South Dakota farmers and ranchers from the Bush administration, ... There's no substitute for the face-to-face interaction that producers have with FSA personnel. They need the opportunity to ask questions, to explain their circumstances. To lose that opportunity is going to be a serious problem.

I do not see it as a substitute for going to church. People go to church to congregate with other people.

I don't agree that wireless is an adequate substitute for all customers. Cable competition and (Internet phones) require you to have a high-speed Internet connection, and a lot of people can't afford that.

I have asked again and again for more police, we have asked for an extra 3,000 which we have had to substitute for them, ... We don't have the money flowing the way it has been predicted.

From airplanes to lawnmowers, oil is everywhere in our society. Complex supply chains have been created to feed this addiction, and it reaches farther and deeper than most people realize. Trying to introduce a new supply chain in a short time to substitute for this massive system that's been built over 150 years is unrealistic.

Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

He is employed by the Holland Group, which provides staffing for our substitute teachers, ... He apparently used some inappropriate language and called a student 'heathen.'

What more could you ask from him? You can't substitute for him. In the end I think he ran out of gas.

We substitute foods that are on the menu with a doctor's excuse. With 20,000 kids, it's impossible to be short-order cooks.

To get at their real concerns, there is simply no substitute for talking one-on-one with the people who sent you here.

He's a believer in the fact that a judge has a limited role to play and has a responsibility to play the role in an honest fashion ? that you're not supposed to substitute your personal judgments for what the law is.

He's always had a good arm and he's decently mobile, but the intangibles are what make a quarterback. There is no substitute for experience and Mike is battle-tested in this league (ACC).

He's just matured; there's no substitute for experience. He's dealt with it extremely well and has bounced back from adverse circumstances. He's the leader of this team.

Greener Miles is just one piece of our comprehensive strategy on climate change. It is not a substitute for our continuing work on vehicle fuel efficiency. It does provide an incremental, short term action to help bridge the gap until we are able to implement longer term solutions. And it allows individuals to take positive, direct action now to share in the solution.

Kevin is a great player, like (Villa substitute Juan Pablo) Angel. He gave me a great ball and it was a shame he couldn't take his chance when I passed to him. But I think he is going to score a lot of goals for this club.

I think it's great if individuals invest in the stock market, but not as a substitute for insuring the solvency of Social Security.

It isn't nearly as exciting as it was when I was gearing up to play. I know that I won't have an opportunity to make that game-saving tackle or the big play that will get replayed on and on forever. So, while I am excited to be here and this has been a wonderful ride, there is no substitute for that feeling of knowing, come Sunday, you are going to have the chance to perform at the highest level.

It is not our intention in any way, shape or form to promote our vaccine as a substitute for any other prevention approach, be it abstinence or screening.

I think that maybe if those guys get more playing time, they'll improve and the energy level will pick up and we can become a better team as a result of doing that. That was according to plan. We weren't going to wait until late second quarter to substitute or later in the game to substitute; we wanted to substitute early and often.

It is no substitute for an overall plan on aid and trade at the G8 summit, but this degree of cooperation should make a historic breakthrough more likely,

Our guys aren't as big as some. But they do have great speed. We really thrive on speed with our defense. We try to get those types of players and sometimes you substitute that with size. Our linebackers do have good speed.

Our substitute players have meant so much to this team. You know they are going to play well when you put them in, and it really helps this team out.

Our core concern wasn't really answered, which is that the golf course becomes a substitute for the governor's office,

Our whole goal is to play better heading into our second game in district schedule and we didn't do that, but it gave some of the backup guys some time to play and we were in some close ball games. You can only practice and simulate that a few times. There's no substitute for that. Hopefully this can be something we can learn from as we start district.

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Research shows, ... that while mothers tend to soothe their children and shield them from too much stimulation, the average father is inclined to arouse the emotions and stimulate a boy, playing with him zestfully and 'jazzing' him up. ? That roughhousing between father and son that may make mom cringe is actually the rudimentary beginning of a boy's management of his aggression and his ability to substitute emotional mastery and mutual cooperation for violent interaction.

Recruitment is a serious business and the speed interview is not a substitute for a formal, in-depth interview. It's simply a way of helping candidates decide which companies they'd like to concentrate their time and efforts on.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!

I still have the desire and ability to win races, but a little burnout is beginning to set in. I may drive a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver, but it's time to freshen up and do some things with my family that I have put off for a lot of years.

That's the objective -- to get the play off before they can substitute on defense,

When states decide to use force, not in self-defense but to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, there is no substitute for the unique legitimacy provided by the Security Council,

You can buy as much TV as you want in New Hampshire, and we'll certainly do our share, but there's no substitute for being up there. People really want a candidate who's going to talk about them, not about his opponents, not about George W. Bush. You'll see a lot of these conversations Clark is having are about them,

When it comes to substitute pay, we're at the bottom of the barrel.

We clearly don't want to send the message in this program that we don't want people to go to college or that this is a substitute for college.

We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams.

We know that technology can augment contact between children and parents. But what we don't want is for that to substitute for real time. Virtual time is not real time. We don't want the advent of technological advances to become an excuse to justify moving away. Both parents have an obligation to stay in the same neighborhood unless they mutually agree to work something out otherwise.

While we recognize the valuable contribution made by all of our substitute teachers for the work they do in maintaining the progression of learning, the outstanding example set by these individuals is particularly noteworthy. They have demonstrated a genuine dedication to student achievement.

We were just better than them, and it was as simple as that. We were the better basketball players who made plays, so there is no substitute left for that.

We won't miss when we had to go get a substitute if we wanted to go on a trip.

We didn't have a lot of options. We tried to substitute as much as we could.

When you are away from home there is absolutely no substitute for experience. We are playing against a team that we have not beaten at Lansdowne Road for eight years.

The experience we have gained in this New Zealand campaign is invaluable and we all know that to win, there is no substitute for ongoing momentum and participation.

While plantation forests are an extremely valuable resource and will undoubtedly supply an increasing portion of wood and fiber needs in the future, they should not be considered a substitute for the region's dwindling natural forests. During the past five years, the region lost more than 14.8 million acres of natural forests.

We think that is a prelude to them all going in the next game. We try to focus on shooting percentages, not how many shots we miss, and we ended up shooting 37 percent. The reason people gasp for air is that they are point-blank misses. We can probably attribute that to nerves. We did substitute early, trying to get back in our normal breathing pattern.

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'

We will have to see what happens, but basically there is no substitute for dropping shark's fin altogether.

The president's point was there are some things that are of sufficient magnitude that they require something to substitute for the overwhelmed first responders at the state and local level,

The government has only made cosmetic changes to its vague and ambiguous proposal. Their plan remains unprecedented, excessive, and harmful. The exercise of the past few days does not substitute in any way for a legitimate process, in which Microsoft could have challenged the government's assumptions and assertions related to its unprecedented breakup plan and draconian regulations.

We've been looking for 30 years and we have not found an acceptable substitute for PFOA.

We've been looking for 30 years, and we have not found an acceptable substitute for PFOA.

The Optimist's Handbook, hint #12: Substitute the word 'challenge' whenever you mean to say 'problem.'