Veneer Quotes

46 quotes by 45 authors

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
Good design is not an applied veneer. — Raymond Loewy
Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer. — Andrew Hacker
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… — T. Coleman du Pont
...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… — Vaclav Smil
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… — Shirley Jackson
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… — Ronald Reagan
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.… — Milton H. Erickson
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual… — Kenny Smith
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion — Dennis Prager
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. — Baden Powell de Aquino
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… — Pope Francis
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… — John McGahern
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
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… — Susan Faludi
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,… — Ted Dekker
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… — Lena Headey
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood… — Peter Zumthor

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