Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it’s a substitute for the psychiatrist’s couch.

Some words were made up without any thought given. Nice is one of them. Nice has no meaning. Nice gets thrown out there to replace something meaningful. Take Goodreads and turn it into Nicereads. This...

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!

I don’t believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that ‘it’s all about the process,’ I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that...

Take care of your soul; it will never lose its tournament if Jesus is the coach of your life. He will substitute your sins for righteousness and you will not be tempted to suffer a...

I wanted to make love in the rain, but owing to unfavorable (or, rather favorable) weather conditions, I took to the shower as a suitable substitute.

It was said that if you duped death, if you kept someone alive who should have died, then you might be called to die in their place. Energy was demanded, if not from one source,...

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.

Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you’ll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.