Quotes About Friction

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

Joseph Zawinul does overkill, and his technological overkill sucks, but there's no friction between us; I just say, 'Look,' and that's it. Do you have any idea how much music I learned from him?

My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.

The gluing together of a clutch of human beings into some semblance of a city has never been more than remotely possible. We are all sinners, and it's the people closest to us that see us at our worst. The family gets the lion's share of life's provocations, aggravations, and enervations. Nowhere is there so much fur quite so ready to be rubbed the wrong way.

In Sergeant McCaustic I had found my personal hair shirt. We had come to an understanding within a day or two; that is, we had agreed that we were incompatible.

It might have been friction over this issue that caused their relationship to cool in the late 1890s.

There was friction in the family regarding Anne Morgan's award of $3 million.

Yet they never seemed to get along.

As time passed, the strains between Gates and Harper grew intolerable.

To sow discord and division.

As a rule, the Bureau and the military don't get along too well." "Well, there's a big surprise. Who the hell do you guys get along with?

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.

production." Their difficulties were overcome only when it was successfully established that, for any given amount of heat produced by friction

To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.

remove the cold war and internal conflicts multiply in countries by the week.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Worst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.

Frances was sulky and suspicious, while Jet was kindhearted and so sensitive that a negative remark could make her break into hives.