It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this." — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people. — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in. — Steven Klein Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The right type of [leader] is democratic. He must not consider himself a superior sort of personage. He must actually feel democratic;… — T. Coleman du Pont Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse,… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
It's good to have a brand that is consistent that people know about and trust. But it's also good to mix it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The veneer of civilization is like that on the kitchen counter - very thin.” — Malcolm Watts Copy Share Image
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