Thermometers Quotes

• True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Love Is, Suffering, True Love Is

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• Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Friendship, Judging, May

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.14

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• Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Positive, Growth

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• I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Political, Listening, Mouths

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• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Wall

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• 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

  Climate, Shapes, Opinion

  FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jul 26, 2011

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• Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

  Mark Twain

  Frozen, Cold, Inches

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, School, Boss

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• I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Temperature

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Psalms”

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• To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Cadavers

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

  Sylvia Plath

  Snow, Cadavers, Landscape

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Friendship, Thinking, Meat

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• An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

  Bobby Flay

  Temperature, Meat, Instant

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  Salvador Dali

  Success, Jealousy, Artist

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• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Public Opinion, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I have invented the Thermometer style.

  Josef Albers

  Style

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  The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Treatment, Nations

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• 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

  Reality, True Beauty, Records

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Vocabulary, Adjectives

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.79

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• 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

  Two, People, Kind

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I may try the heat of your heart, and I will tell you the amount of your success.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Heart, Trying

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• Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sex, Food, Jersey

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• I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

  David Levithan

  Wake Up, Normal, Sickness

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• (On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.

  Brian Cox

  Years, Water, Sun

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