Substitutes Quotes (page 10)

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• love
• passion
• thinking

Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical? Victor Hugo

• substitution
• stepped
• steps

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight. Ayn Rand

• humanity
• may
• respect

I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality and animal instinct; without this, life becomes tame and uninteresting. Civilization should be something added to this, not substituted for it; the ascetic saint and the detached sage fail in this respect to be complete human beings. A small number of them may enrich a community; but a world composed of them would die of boredom. Bertrand Russell

• father
• manly
• discarded

In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice. Mark Twain

• face-to-face
• researchers
• substitute

There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research. Thomas Friedman

• relationship
• comforting
• comfortably

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Iris Murdoch

• life
• humanity
• yearnings

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. Iris Murdoch

• centuries
• substitution
• religion

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. Malcolm Muggeridge

• reading
• just do it
• you

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it. Richard Morris

• understanding
• view
• luxury

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Marshall McLuhan

• imagination
• imaginative
• disaster

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. Ada Louise Huxtable

• industrially
• industrialized
• avail

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. Aldous Huxley

• best
• sometimes
• question

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. Brian Greene

• business
• coincidence
• good

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

• hard
• best
• powerful

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. James A. Garfield