Substitute Quotes - page 17

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information. (Edward de Bono)
It was unable to substitute itself for paganism until such time as paganism came to resemble it, and itself came to resemble paganism. View quote
Anatole France
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time. View quote
Andy Grove
Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight. View quote
Rumi
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. View quote
Rumi
But it may be urged, on the other side, that Liberty is not the sum or substitute for of all things men ought to live for... to be real it must be circumscribed. View quote
John W. Campbell
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. View quote
Frances Wright
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. View quote
Karl Kraus
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. View quote
Karl Kraus
For many things we can find substitutes, but there is not now, nor will there ever be, a substitute for creative thought. View quote
Crawford Greenewalt
The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. (Vera Brittain)
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. View quote
Elsa Maxwell
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' View quote
Ernestine Rose
There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Great talents are not, before God, a substitute for love for Himself; the possession of a profound intellect does not free any man from the obligations resting on the heart for purity and holiness; a reputation for attainments in science does not settle the question whether he is righteous before his Maker; refined manners are not, in the sight of God, a substitute for the graces of the Spirit; God does not justify man on the ground of human learning; attainments in chemistry, anatomy, geology, botany, astronomy, or skill in sculpture and painting, - these do not prepare a man to die. View quote
Albert Barnes
What the Democratic Party has most liked to say about itself-that it is the party of the working man, the voice of the oppressed, the tribune of the people-loses some of its strut in the light of a rather long list of inconvenient facts, chiefly having to do with slavery and race. Such facts as these: that the Democrats were the party that championed chattel bondage, backed an expansionist war to expand slavery's realm, and corrupted the Supreme Court in order to open the western territories to the cancer. The party's Southern wing then led the nation into civil war in defense of slavery while its Northern wing did its best to stymie the administration of Abraham Lincoln, widely regarded by the Democrats as an accidental, even illegitimate, president. Thereafter, the party embraced Jim Crow as slavery's next-best substitute, elected a president who imposed segregation on the federal workforce, and remained the chief opponent of racial equality... View quote
Allen C. Guelzo
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free - and worth a fortune. View quote
Sam Walton
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. View quote
Sam Walton
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences. View quote
Harvey Mackay
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership. View quote
Jim Webb
As Hooke declared the favorite hypothesis of the day ('that marine fossil bodies were to be referred to Noah's flood') to be wholly untenable, he appears to have felt himself called upon to substitute a diluvial theory of his own, and thus he became involved in countless difficulties and contradictions. ...When ...he. (Charles Lyell)
Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented. View quote
Henry Fountain Ashurst
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. View quote
Havelock Ellis
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality. View quote
Thomas Sowell