Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national… — Mike Jackson Copy Share Image
“Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems that spill over into relationships.” — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure,… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings. — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
When you hit someone back with understanding or love it stops the cycle of friction. Its not always easy to do, but… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
Reporters are always supposed to be demanding more access and more transparency. So the day that there isn't some friction between the… — Josh Earnest Copy Share Image
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“How embarrassing. To suddenly understand how much of a burden you are to another person, how much someone else might wish to… — Angela Flournoy Copy Share Image
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that… — Simon Hughes Copy Share Image
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Friction still exists in travel, and we are on a quest to go even further to make the entire experience - from… — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image