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.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel you hinder people from getting to reality.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
When it comes to developing character strength inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child no institution can or ever will compare with or effectively substitute for the home's potential for positive influence.
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation we must not merely talk we must act big.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Books are good enough in their own way but they are a poor substitute for life.
In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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.'
I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food it's going to be the real deal.
There are no adequate substitutes for father mother and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government no matter how well-intentioned can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.