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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. -- Ambrose Bierce
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. -- Ayn Rand
The audience is the barometer of the truth. -- Barbra Streisand
Winning is not always the barometer of getting better. -- Tiger Woods
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. -- David Hare
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. -- Lionel Trilling
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. -- Hendrik Willem van Loon
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up. -- Jane Siberry
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. -- Mehmet Oz
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. -- Gary Oldman
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. -- Joe Greene
Jazz is a good barometer of freedom. -- Duke Ellington
...interest is the barometer of the state... -- David Hume
Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words. -- Wayne Dyer
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. -- Ronald Reagan
There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health. -- Samuel R. Delany
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. -- Wayne Dyer
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. -- Martha Graham
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity. -- Margaret Mead
I can't say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives! -- Anita Moorjani
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. -- Thomas Jane
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. -- Harriet Lerner
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. -- Ethan Hawke
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country. -- Duke Ellington
Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one. -- Jared Kushner
Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever. -- Steven Tyler
I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them. -- Meghan Daum
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. -- Steve Harvey
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. -- Thomas Jane
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. -- Tom Petty
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene. -- Wendy Kopp
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work. -- Peter Higgs
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. -- Greg Brenneman
When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt. -- Shawn Levy
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. -- Tim Wakefield
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable. -- Damien Chazelle
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question. -- Bayard Rustin
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
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being. -- John Buchan
Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything? -- Arthur Hailey
The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God. -- Jose Bergamin
If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? -- Steve Harvey
Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. -- Henry Miller
The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it's quality. -- Emerson Spartz
I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one. -- Fred Nicole
Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security. -- Lawrence Kushner
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. -- Wayne Dyer
A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day. -- Wayne Dyer
The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air. -- Lisa Alther
I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion. -- Cory Bernardi
My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything. -- Emma Stone
The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity. -- Sulak Sivaraksa
I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture. -- Eli Roth
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes. -- Humphry Davy
I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance. -- Steven Soderbergh
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. -- Ayn Rand
If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world. -- Will Rogers
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings. -- Hortense Powdermaker

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