Cheap Substitute Quotes & Sayings

Caterpillars chew their way through ecosystems leaving a path of destruction as they get fatter and fatter. When they finally fall asleep and a chrysalis forms around them, tiny new imaginal cells, as biologists call them, begin to take form within their bodies. The caterpillar's immune system fights these new cells as though they were foreign intruders, and only when they crop up in greater numbers and link themselves together are they strong enough to survive. Then the caterpillar's immune system fails and its body dissolves into a nutritive soup which the new cells recycle into their developing butterfly.

The caterpillar is a necessary stage but becomes unsustainable once its job is done. There is no point in being angry with it and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task is to focus on building the butterfly, the success of which depends on powerful positive and creative efforts in all aspects of society and alliances built among those engaged in them. — Elisabet Sahtouris

Every once in awhile try to do something nice for somebody you don't know, even if it's just leaving an opening in traffic for them to merge into, small things like that give people hope that we're not all assholes. — Joshua Neik

The Kindle itself is just the tip of the iceberg, and its true workings are invisible. — Jason Merkoski

Endurance is the queen of all virtues. — Saint John Chrysostom

Google Drive has many uses. However, if I had to name the killer feature, it would be the ability to instantly create or edit online documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other types of files from any Web browser connected to the Internet. It's a cheap, quick and effective substitute for Microsoft Office. — Ian Lamont

Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something ... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that ... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else. — Toni Morrison

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism. — Richard Rohr

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned — Charles R. Swindoll

The trouble with Ian Mackenzie's questions was that he asked the unanswerable. And yet she should know how to answer - everyone should. But they couldn't, because everyone simply knew. Everyone except Ian. — Jennifer Ashley

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand. — Andrea Barrett

A temptation is Satan's cheap substitute for the real gifts from heaven the Father has given us. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves. — Hannah More

No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material. — Donella Meadows

The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue — Frank Bettger

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful. — Rose Macaulay

Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it. — Rajneesh

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished. — Neil Welliver

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper. — Cory Doctorow

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

The rising sun sent fingers of light through the pale white mists of dawn. — George R R Martin

Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures. — Mary E. DeMuth

We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme. — Tracy Chevalier

The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as "swami", "baba" and "guru" are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors. — Abhijit Naskar