Barometer Quotes

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. (Ambrose Bierce)
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. View quote
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind. View quote
Ayn Rand
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. View quote
Henry Miller
I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all. View quote
Ethan Hawke
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. View quote
Martha Graham
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. View quote
Gary Oldman
At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues. View quote
Mehmet Oz
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. View quote
Thomas Jane
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. (David Hare (dramatist))
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. View quote
Ayn Rand
Dame Sancho would be better if she cared less. I am her barometer- if a sigh escapes me, it is answered by a tear in her eye; I oft assume a gaiety to illume her dear sensibility with a smile- which twenty years ago almost bewitched me; and mark! after twenty years enjoyment, constitutes my highest pleasure! View quote
Ignatius Sancho
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. View quote
Lionel Trilling
I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. It's damn dangerous. TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. View quote
Tom Petty
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the soutard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning. View quote
Mark Twain
I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe. View quote
Steve Harvey
Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself. View quote
Harriet Lerner
Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life. View quote
Elif Batuman
If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again. (Charles Kelley)
When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer. View quote
Gregory D. Brenneman
Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one. View quote
Jared Kushner
As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team. View quote
Joe Greene
There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch. View quote
Tim Wakefield