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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. -- Evan Esar
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. -- Honore de Balzac
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. -- George Washington Carver
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. -- George Santayana
What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. -- Susan Faludi
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again! -- Michael Flanders
There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful. -- Lena Headey
I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. -- John McGahern
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. -- Edward Hopper
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer. -- Eve Ensler
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around. -- Peter Zumthor
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way. -- George Bernard Shaw
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. -- J. G. Holland
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion -- Dennis Prager
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. -- John Lahr
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants. -- Vaclav Smil
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression. -- Ronald Reagan
It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities. -- Shirley Jackson
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free. -- Milton H. Erickson
I used to have the craziest fear of losing teeth. I would have nightmares about that all the time. But it's the craziest thing, because I feel like that's one of the easiest things to fix. You just get veneers or something. -- Kendall Jenner
The proclamation of Jesus is not a veneer: the proclamation of Jesus goes straight to the bones, heart, goes deep within and change us. And the spirit of the world does not tolerate it, will not tolerate it, and therefore, there is persecution. -- Pope Francis
I think of part of myself as a very passionate person, but I don't think that comes across. I don't know where it comes from, that reserve or veneer of British niceness. But it doesn't bother me if other people don't spot the passion. I know it's there. -- Julie Andrews
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, "Make it look good!" That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. -- Steve Jobs
The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic; it is not enough that he try to pose as democratic-he must be democratic, otherwise the veneer, the sheen, would wear off, for you can't fool a body of intelligent American workingmen for very long. He must ring true. -- T. Coleman du Pont
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart. -- Bill Hicks
Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good. -- Liz Phair
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off. -- Sarah Hall
I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in. -- Steven Klein
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people. -- Douglas Kennedy
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it. -- Bryan Batt
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note. -- Stephen Merchant
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image. -- Ted Dekker
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows. -- Carlos Fuentes
The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters. -- George Mastras
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. -- Steve Jobs
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment. -- Henry Giroux
In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. -- Lauren Bacall
If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.' -- Naomi Wolf
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction. -- Neill Blomkamp
Good design is not an applied veneer. -- Raymond Loewy
Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim. -- Donna Lynn Hope
Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer. -- Andrew Hacker
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. -- Bob Lewis
Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster. -- Rainbow Rowell
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer. -- Camille Paglia
Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this." -- Dennis Miller
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. -- Charlotte M. Mason
The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization. -- Dean Koontz
Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything. -- Derek Jarman

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