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Tag Name "Substitutes" (540)

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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.
Rumi
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
Ahmed Yassin
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You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.
Winston Churchill
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Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.
Stanislaw Lem
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Agnes de Mille
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You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.
Cassandra Clare
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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop
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Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
Adrian Slywotzky
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The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.
Adrian Rogers
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Adam Savage
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Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
Paul Weyrich
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Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
A.J. Cronin
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[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
Michael Pollan
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Now I like to think that I'm in my character's head so much that I don't have to substitute. I'm in the moment I'm living in the moment. And if it's genuine, it's real, and if it comes out it comes out.
Michael B. Jordan
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Human nature is pretty well balanced for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Ambrose Bierce
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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.
Marshall McLuhan
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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
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Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Joseph Addison
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My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.
Elizabeth Bowen
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The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.
Daryl Gregory
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Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts.
Brian Tracy
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The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
Calvin Coolidge
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The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
James Smith McDonnell
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
Elon Musk
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