Abrasive Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction… — Saul Alinsky
Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses.… — Carl Icahn
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession… — Conrad Black
What really kills meâ€”it really rips me upâ€”is when people think Iâ€™m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I donâ€™t go outside in a bikini and… — Kristen Stewart
The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality. — Richard M. Nixon
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's… — Paul Thomas Anderson
Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time, — Stella McCartney
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the… — Simon Mawer
Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as… — Isocrates
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and… — John F. Kennedy
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. — Marshall McLuhan
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you… — Isaac Asimov
In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in… — Shalom Harlow
There is something very fragile about the beginning stages of psychic development. Eventually, one becomes very strong and the cushioning isn't as necessary. It's still… — Frederick Lenz
We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions. — Mike Wallace
The thing that really stands out in my mind about Aerosmith is that we're still fucking together. Whatever we've done together and whatever we've become,… — Aerosmith

Who Wrote These Abrasive Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 16 Abrasive Quotes as follows: