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

— David Hare

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Ambrose Bierce

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

— Miyamoto Musashi

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

— Al Gore

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

— Ian K. Smith

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

— Archibald Hill

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.

— John Holdren

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

— Charles Francis Richter

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Lionel Trilling