Desire Quote by Phyllis Bottome Download Open image “There is no thermometer for wants!” — Phyllis Bottome ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Thermometers Want
“Be a thermometer and not a thermostat! (Set the temperature rather than registering it!)” — Karen Budzinski Copy Share Image
“Off to get the thermometer I feel my body temperature rising which can only mean 1 thing--------theres a rant coming on..” — Cal Sarwar on facebook Copy Share Image
“some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You’re a thermostat. You don’t register the temperature in a room, you change it.” — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death. — Mark Twain 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 some of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well. — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats. — Arlene Francis Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
