Walter Willett Quotes

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.

Walter Willett

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• Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Goodbye
  • Love You
  • I Don't Love You Anymore

• You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Unhappy

• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Wise
  • Vacation
  • Ant

• Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Death
  • Discovered
  • Flavors

• Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

  

  Sophocles
  • Happy
  • Goal
  • Mortal

• He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Decay
  • Plots
  • Ciphers

• Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Survival
  • Despair

• Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

  

  William James
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Belief

• We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Suffering
  • Enjoy
  • Littles

• We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

  

  William Tyndale
  • Boys
  • Causes
  • Scripture

• That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

  

  Charles Coburn
  • Need
  • Rich
  • Anything

• We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democracy
  • Worthless

• Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blood
  • Poison
  • Sassy

• As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Great
  • America
  • War

• At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Decision
  • Judge
  • Conversation

• Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Poison
  • Fats