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.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

However successful you are there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time you just can't.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself know your business know your men.

It is art that makes life makes interest makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is art that makes life makes interest makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.