FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me. — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color,… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
All three girls in 'Housefull 3,' Jacqueline Fernandez, Lisa Haydon and Nargis, got along well. Usually when there is more than one… — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of… — Adrian Bejan Copy Share Image
Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts,… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was looking for someplace to store all the things I was feeling - the friction, the contradictions, the unmerciful truth -… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody. — Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Copy Share Image
Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well. — Michael Ballack Copy Share Image
In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that. — James Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
From our earliest days, Booking.com has been deploying technology to help strip the friction out of travel. — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
