Friction Quotations

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

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

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them.

I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.

Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

We've always sought to remove friction from e-commerce,

Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction...

The only way to solve the problem (between Jews and Arabs) is to lower the friction between the two peoples. There can't be peaceful coexistence in one national state, we can't live together in the same apartment. So there should be a separate Jewish state and Arab state.

This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance. ...

Mr. de Soto's contacts with regional leaders, while not as complete as would have been desirable, nevertheless confirmed my concern that the new situation which had emerged following the developments of May, compounding as it does the longstanding causes of friction between India and Pakistan, may have serious implications for peace and security in the region and beyond,

Money is the biggest cause of friction in a marriage.

One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.

I was still haunted by my last minute adjustment before qualifying. I am still trying to get the brakes all dialed in. I still couldn't come into the braking zones with authority until half way through the race. I caught back up and it was just a matter of 10 to 20 feet every braking zone because the Performance Friction Brakes were working well once it was dialed in.

I'd like to see them come down a little bit more. You have to take it as it comes, day-by-day and hopefully the trend will just keep going down. I've noticed a lot less friction with people.

Basically the road has been done with only the friction course to be laid.

Free-to-play isn't a business model. Free-to-play is a marketing strategy. It's a way to get people over the hump of trying out your game. It gets rid of the friction that happens when you charge an upfront fee.

Friction calls are some of the most realistic calls there are.

There is no friction between band members about their health, image or what they wear on stage,

There is an ongoing conflict between 'whole organism' and 'molecular' approaches to studying insects. Friction has evolved because molecular biology is taking over a tremendous amount of resources, including funding and space within universities.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

I think they have a comfort zone in terms of personalities, where they understand each other and there's no friction ever. Sometimes I think they're disagreeing with one another too much and they say, 'Coach, that's OK. We've done this for years.' I have to back off. They have their own little language how they deal with each other.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

It is competition and cooperation... we must build a mature relationship under which we may see friction and cooperation coexisting.

It is competition and cooperation ... We must build a mature relationship under which we may see friction and cooperation coexisting.

The aircraft will sink into material and it pressing against the front gear will cause much more friction than normal braking would, ... It can stop it very quickly with no injury and very little damage to the aircraft.

My brain doesn't register it as drawing. The feeling of friction across the glass is different.

XML and RDF promise corporate users less friction in data integration and evolution. Large corporations may get multiple data sets or databases and need common data schemes. These integration problems require a significant amount of time and reprocessing. They can make for a pretty painful data fusion process. XML and RDF reduce the time it takes...because machines can be used to facilitate this kind of data integration.

We view any actions by the KLA -- or any other armed bands of paramilitaries or armed groups that cause friction or raise tensions -- as being entirely unacceptable.

There is a big temperature contrast between the warm ocean water and the cold ice, and melting occurs at a very rapid rate. The melting reduces the friction that holds these glaciers back, allowing them to accelerate.

When you have a small object traveling at an incredibly high velocity, slamming into the earth's atmosphere, the friction makes the speeding object heat up so much that it can internally fracture and turn into what we call a fireball,

Finn doesn't have as much respect for Han's legacy as everybody else does, and Han finds that a bit charming. They team up and go on a mission together. The banter is very choppy, and the dialogue is pretty funny. Chewie enjoys the banter and the friction between the two, but they definitely have each other's backs.

Bitcoin woke us all up to a new way to pay, and culturally, I think a much larger percentage of us have become accustomed to the idea that money no longer comes with the friction it once had.

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

There's no doubt in my mind that it's not the greatest surface for injuries either. I think it causes a lot of friction on your body.

The spectacle is secondary, ... What I really like about it is there's a friction between good and evil.

The sweepers originated in the old days, to brush away debris from the ice. Now that the game is played indoors they are used to create friction on the ice, allowing the stone to travel further.

Roller hockey helps a lot in just keeping you in shape for ice hockey. Roller hockey is more tiring. I think it's just the friction with the roller hockey wheels. It's harder to get going faster. So you get more tired out.

put Israel back into international isolation ... and cause friction with the United States -- our great friend -- and hostility with Europe.

Southern California is a place of relationship fiction and friction ending abruptly without warning. Here you have a city that is all about looks, but when you look deeper, there isn't much else. Here in L.A. if you've lasted in a relationship for four years and it ends you say, "Oh, we had a good run.", like it's, "The O.C." or "C.S.I." - From the book by Kevin Hunter, Jagger's Revolution

One could say that 9.9 percent is a very convenient number; it's not 10 percent. Ten percent might scare people, and might create more trade friction with the U.S..

Any time a team sees some friction . . . if that opportunity arises to capitalize, most teams want to seize on it. But any time it was approached, my answer is that, 'Steve is very happy in Orlando.' He wants to stay here and lead this team to the playoffs.

This plan is good for Israel in any future scenario. We are reducing the day-to-day friction and its victims on both sides,

It was hard to ask anybody to take part in something that would get you stigmatized and make earning a living tough for you, not to say create friction with your family and so on.

In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.

He sets the standard really high, especially at the quarterback position and he isn't going to settle for anything less. Bottom line is he just wants you to do things his way and if you do that, things will work out and he will be happy and you won't have that friction as long as things are going well. It isn't all the on the quarterback but you just have to make it right.

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

(Gangs) look for a place they don't get friction from the neighborhood.

The electoral programs of both coalitions are the result of the new proportional law. Both sides have diluted content to a very high degree to avoid friction within the coalition. After the election whoever wins will have to be more decisive.

You've got the same problem as a car on Earth on a sheet of ice. There is very little friction between the wheels and the surface.

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

We want to further eliminate friction among heterogeneous architectures and applications without compromising their distinctive underlying capabilities.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.