#substitute

A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#anything #apt #child #clint #element

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

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

— James A. Garfield

#hard #hard work #possible #power #skill

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. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#humor

I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#love #substitute #inspirational

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#being #dangerous #god #love #loyalty

There is no substitute for hard work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#hard #hard work #substitute

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises. ↗

— Bob Barker

#depend #experience #how #i #i do

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. ↗

— Georges Braque

#definition #itself #substitute #thing