Behind The Facade Quotes

#1. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the facade of your life, something beautiful, good, and eternal is happening.

John O'Donohue

#2. After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

Zeena Schreck

#3. A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

E. M. Forster

#4. I have this prodigious talent for painting the person behind the facade, but with Blaine the facade is all there is left - just artifice, guile, and an expensive pair of silicone tits.

Tabitha McGowan

#5. Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world ... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

Irving Penn

#6. Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

Richard Ney

#7. Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and
tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

Peter Drucker

#8. Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself.

Tom Robbins

#9. Satan has his sights on the United States of America!

Rick Santorum

#10. It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, not a pseudonym. It is real, the real thing, the thing behind the words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

Jimmy Buffett

#12. We may succeed in preserving a modicum of rectitude in the performance of our public duty, but behind this facade lurk violent and sinful emotions, which are always threatening to erupt.

John R.W. Stott

#13. I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

Richard Paul Evans

#14. Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Bernard Baruch

#15. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#16. It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#17. Our culture's quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the words of Crazy Horse, Today is a good day to die.

Richard Paul Evans

#18. Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#19. Interviews seem like such artificial situations, everyone on their best behavior trying desperately to hide behind a professional facade. Did my face fit? I shall have to wait and see.

E.L. James

#20. If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

Yehuda Berg

#21. Behind her warm facade radiating empathy and understanding, there was an aggressive, bad- tempered bitch, putting up endless walls of goodness to conceal her rage and resentment toward the entire world. She was like an alligator in a velvet jumpsuit.

Zygmunt Miloszewski

#22. It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.

Carl R. Rogers

#23. The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people ... The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Huey Newton

#24. So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.
What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

#25. Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

Aravind Adiga

#26. Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how - and never let on that you were looking for it.

Isaac Asimov

#27. He was not adept at reading Shadowhunter hearts, behind their smooth angelically arrogant facades. He thought that might be why Alec had surprised him so much, had wrong-footed him so that Magnus had stumbled into feelings he had not planned to have. Alec had no facade at all.

Cassandra Clare

#28. I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

Sam Claflin

#29. Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

Stanislaw Lem

#30. A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#31. Parents of small children must perforce have an entirely different sense of irony than unimpaired humankind.

Neal Stephenson

#32. A strong man sails by ash breeze!

Jean Lee Latham

#33. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Thomas S. Monson

#34. I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows ... but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.

Maureen Johnson