I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.
There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.
Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds
God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.