Quotes About Veneer

#1. Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.

Cinda Williams Chima

#2. It must sound stupid, but it was the first time I realized that for rest of my life, till death do us part, it was on me to maintain this veneer's sparkly, streak-free shine.

Jessica Knoll

#3. It must sound stupid, but it was I realized that for rest of my life, till death do us part, it was on me to maintain this veneer's sparkly free, streak-free shine.

Jessica Knoll

#4. War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.

Mark Baker

#5. 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

#6. Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Camille Paglia

#7. Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.

Ian Rankin

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

Derren Brown

#11. Well, we're all animals, really
just with a veneer of civilization.

Michelle Cooper

#12. Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.

Janice Galloway

#13. 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

#14. Angry people may appear strong, willful, or certain, but be assured that beneath the veneer are fear and loneliness and insecurity and pain. Especially, there is pain.

Les Carter

#15. Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know ... whatever, right on, radicals and world changers, social peaceniks perhaps, with a Buddhist spiritual veneer.

Surya Das

#16. Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.

Bill Moyers

#17. We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. 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 and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

Kenny Smith

#19. 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

#20. I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

Steven Klein

#21. 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

#22. Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Andrew Hacker

#23. Good design is not an applied veneer.

Raymond Loewy

#24. Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.

Donna Lynn Hope

#25. Las Vegas is like huge fake breasts. Nothing is real, just plastic. It is all provided with a clean veneer over the grime of its purpose, to swindle. And I don't gamble

Komrade Komura

#26. It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could only see the thin surface veneer of things; she couldn't get beneath it to the real heart of anything.

Penni Russon

#27. The diversity of things, their individuality, were only an appearance, a veneer. This veneer had melted,
leaving soft, monstrous masses, all in disorder - naked, in a frightful, obscene nakedness. I kept myself from making the slightest movement, but I didn't need to move in order to

Jean-Paul Sartre

#28. 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

#29. Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.

Bruce Brander

#30. He'd start slow. But he would woo his wife. No matter what personality lay behind the veneer of beauty, she was the only wife he had. And that made her worth it.

Melissa Jagears

#31. I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.

Lily King

#32. There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

#33. Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood - common

D.E. Stevenson

#34. 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

#35. Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore De Balzac

#36. It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Baden Powell De Aquino

#37. Arrogance is a veneer
a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Bob Lewis

#38. I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.

Sarah Hall

#39. 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

#40. Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward.

Stephen Richards

#41. 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

#42. How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I've chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I've chosen to exercise out of a passion for change?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#43. Falling in love can happen to complete strangers. Staying in love requires being best friends and that means accepting the person beneath the veneer.

Ellen Hopkins

#44. He despised violence. He believed he was smarter than that, better than that. A civilized man. After seeing Martin Pink in the flesh again - he knew just how thin the veneer of civilization was.

Josh Lanyon

#45. We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer ... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

Steve Jobs

#46. The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

J.G. Holland

#47. 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

#48. Beauty is hardly a virtue, for the disease of insecurity lurks not too far behind its veneer.

Gasmaskman

#49. Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

Dennis Miller

#50. 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

#51. Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

Allan Bloom

#52. When you live outside prison walls, it may seem like life inside has a romanticized veneer on it, like you're watching a movie or reading a novel. When you live it, the veneer comes off.

Nesly Clerge

#53. You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.

Stephanie Perkins

#54. Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Liz Phair

#55. 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

#56. Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.

Rainbow Rowell

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.

Susan Griffin

#61. Yet I, too, know how hard it is to peel back the veneer of your life, and to peek at the real. It's like

Jodi Picoult

#62. (where the more distant phrasing can lend a veneer of respectability to the otherwise prurient-seeming habit of a naturalist spying on other creatures' intimate lives).

Marie Brennan

#63. beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man's concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it.

C.S. Lewis

#64. On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life. I flipped to the middle of the nearest magazine. The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle.

Sylvia Plath

#65. Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges.

Oliver Markus

#66. I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

Sheila Walsh

#67. There's such a fragile, thin veneer of illusion between the words "together" and "alone".

Bradley Somer

#68. Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Douglas Kennedy

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

Rob Thomas

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer.

Anna Godbersen

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria.
("The Chymist")

Thomas Ligotti

#80. Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

Dennis Prager

#81. This is the truth of bombed-out ruins: hit a city hard enough and the cheap arrogant veneer will crumble faster than you can snap your fingers; it's the old stuff, the stuff that's endured, that might just keep enduring. I

Tana French

#82. Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Charlotte M. Mason

#83. That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.

R.D. Ronald

#84. 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

#85. The veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

Karin Tansek

#86. The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

Travis Luedke

#87. We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.

Anne Rice

#88. Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Evan Esar