Walter Willett Quotes

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.

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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 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

• If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

  

  William Bernbach
  • Business
  • Design
  • Advertising

• The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Failure
  • Communication
  • Poison

• I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Change

• Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Why
  • She
  • Mean

• As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

  

  Sylvia Kristel
  • Advantage
  • Responsible
  • Painter

• Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Poison
  • Fats