Top 101 Barometer Quotes & Sayings

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.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

There's no replacement for a live crowd. The fans are our barometer - whether they love something or hate it, they will let you know.

My barometer for choosing a board member is this: regardless of the business, can I make a lifelong friend?

Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.

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.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because 'TOTP' is a catalyst or barometer for pop success.

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.

The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it’s quality.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you're doing. It's rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.

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.

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!

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

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.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.

Interest is the barometer of the state.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

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.

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.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

You have to have your own internal barometer of what is too far. I try and consider feelings of people in the audience. What you have to try and do is that when there is something that could be seen as a transgression, you actually have a reason to justify the joke.

I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

I think you could turn on any channel and see a sexy guy, depending on your barometer of what sexy is.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

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.

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.

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

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.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

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.

Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing.

I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

Your energy is a barometer for your passion.

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

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.

I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.

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.

There are only two possible forms of control: one internal and the other external; religious control and political control. They are of such a nature that when the religious barometer rises, the barometer of [external, i.e., political control] falls and likewise, when the religious barometer falls, the political barometer, that is political control and tyranny, rises. That is the law of humanity, a law of history. If civilized man falls into disbelief and immorality, the way is prepared for some gigantic and colossal tyrant, universal and immense.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

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.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.