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
A fever is an expression of inner rage. — Julia Roberts
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold! — Randy Savage
Think that you have a fever before you actually have a fever. — Thai Proverbs
The cold is our teacher, it tells us the truth. — Wim Hof
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart. — Ajahn Brahm
If you can't measure it, you can't change it. — Peter Drucker
If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you. — William E. Gladstone
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. — Christopher Walken
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? — Steven Wright
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. — Grace Hopper
Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period. — Max Ernst
The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the — Scott Adams
Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light. — Unknown
Short Thermometer Quotes
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. — Swami Vivekananda
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump. — Vin Scully
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. — Vance Havner
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. — Napoleon Bonaparte
True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering. — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death! — Mark Twain
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time. — William Whitelaw
I have invented the Thermometer style. — Josef Albers
Thermometer Image Quotes
Body Temperature Quotes
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize. — Michael Zaslow
Exposing your body to less-than-comfortable temperatures is another very effective way to turn on your longevity genes. — David Sinclair
Because as it turns out, exposing your body to less-than-comfortable temperatures is another very effective way to turn on your longevity genes. — David Sinclair
I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?" — Sarah Paulson
The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temperature to another body at a lower temperature. — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. — Denis Waitley
I have had a love-hate relationship with my body. — Demi Moore
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist. — Rita Mae Brown
Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature. — Alexandra Adornetto
Thermostat Quotes
I feel like I can control my own body as if I have a thermostat that I can adjust when I need to. — Wim Hof
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
Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it. — Bill Nye
The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system. — Michael Somare
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. — Paul Hawken
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. — Gay Hendricks
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. — Terence McKenna
The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable. — John C. Maxwell
Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week. — Jimmy Fallon
It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated. — Tahereh Mafi
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. — Charles Spurgeon
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
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
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero. — Peter Lynch
The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change. — Enric Sala
The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer. — Arthur Jensen
Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer. — Robert Biswas-Diener
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
(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
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 was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist? — David Sedaris
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
Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent. — Dennis T. Avery
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape. — Sylvia Plath
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Corals are instrumental-quality recorders of change in the water. Our thermometers only take us back 50 years or so here. The coral can take us back hundreds and thousands of years. — Rob Dunbar
We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. — Gilbert White
You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature. — Cory Booker
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube. — Henry David Thoreau
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, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. — Josh Billings
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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
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
There is no thermometer for wants! — Phyllis Bottome
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone. — Anna Quindlen
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers. — Anais Nin
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood. — Christopher Hitchens
No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer. — Seth Shostak
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
Prayer is the thermometer of grace. — Charles Spurgeon
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