Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like… — Arlene Francis Copy Share Image
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in. — Trent Dilfer Copy Share Image
Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“ThermometersΔ are essential in the control of food quality. Oven thermometers should have a temperature range of 200°F to 600°F (93°C to… — Ruby Parker Puckett Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend. — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. — John Loengard Copy Share Image
No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
