Quotes on Substitutes

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

There is no substitute for work.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. 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

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

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

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.