Friction Quotes

126 quotes by 116 authors

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light… — George Santayana
The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that… — Adrian Bejan
To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble… — Saint Augustine
What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom… — Napoleon Hill
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty.… — Ashton Kutcher
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. — Henry David Thoreau
I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy.… — Jon Foreman
They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black… — Afrika Bambaataa
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves… — George Bernard Shaw
Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous. — Herman Melville
Frequent friction when love becomes political. — Delano Johnson
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us… — Benjamin Franklin
A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these… — Jack Dorsey
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth — Henry David Thoreau
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice. — Arnold Bennett
Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit… — Juan Williams
Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and… — Yehuda Berg
Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings. — Raymond Arroyo

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