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The White House, realized former naval officer Steve Bannon after a few weeks, was really a military base, a government-issue office with a mansion's façade and a few ceremonial rooms sitting on top of a secure installation under military command.
- Michael Wolff
Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
- Ezekiel 13:10
We pretend to be strong because we are weak.
- Paulo Coelho
Satan's activity mimics his nature: he deceives by hiding the hideous nature of sin under a facade of attractiveness.
- David Jeremiah
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
- John Eldredge
We are hiding, every last one of us. Well aware that we, too, are not what we were meant to be, desperately afraid of exposure, terrified of being seen for what we are and are not, we have run off into the bushes. We hide in our office, at the gym, behind the newspaper and mostly behind our personality. Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
- John Eldredge
Our smaller stories are constructed along the plot lines of control and gratification. Once we begin to live by this false self, Satan and his minions sabotage the story to make sure we are exposed. Then he mocks us for our foolishness and hypocrisy for hiding behind such a facade in the first place. Other times, he simply leaves us to die in costume.
- John Eldredge
History is Force dressed up.
- Elbert Hubbard
Men in all ways are better than they seem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep up appearances whatever you do.
- Charles Dickens
There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with
- Charles Dickens
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde