Frictionless Quotes

#1. I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

Garth Greenwell

#2. We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

Atul Gawande

#3. Up through around twenty-five he'd never even thought about his back: it was a balanced, frictionless, self-regulating system. Now it felt like a busted gearbox into which somebody had chucked a handful of sand.

Lev Grossman

#4. Everyone hated Calculus. Quadratic equations, parabolas, logarithms, trigonometry - you name it. It was like floating in an endless, frictionless void traveling at x miles per hour at a descension rate of one half the speed of gravity. Solve for x.

Andrew Sturm

#5. 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 of conflict.

Saul Alinsky

#6. The American writer is a very pampered figure - by foundations, by fellowships, by publishing advances. Even though I am not American, I have been pampered enough myself to know how it can make your life too frictionless.

Pankaj Mishra

#7. A boss should be respectful of everybody. He should still make sure everybody knows that he is the boss, without having to say it 24/7, but by him approaching you in a way that led you to know that you mean something to the company.

Kevin Clash

#8. If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Jackson Katz

#9. There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping.

Christopher Pike

#10. My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Eminem

#11. Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

Rose Of Lima

#12. In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are learnt. There must be no void in the human heart.

Victor Hugo

#13. Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge

John E. Wordslinger

#14. Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.

Frederick Lenz

#15. The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices ... Government has to make those choices for people.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#17. And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.

Sutton Foster

#18. By Strict Father morality, harsh prison terms for criminals and life imprisonment for repeat offenders are the only moral options.

George Lakoff

#19. Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

Joseph Campbell