#veneer

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

— George Washington Carver

#anything #cut #life #preparation #requires

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#general #only #selfishness #thin #veneer

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ↗

— Evan Esar

#disappointment #over #today #tomorrow #veneer

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

#behind #consequences #electorate #forced #government

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

#back #been #comforting #half #i

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

#broken #chance #control #especially #exciting

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

#any #attempt #character #deny #french

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

#cultures #existed #indian #live #magical

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

#catholic #catholic church #christianity #church #class

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good. ↗

— Liz Phair

#did #good #me #never #perfection