Himsworth Fat Quotes & Sayings

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom. — Aleister Crowley

What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form - even abuse - to challenge the veracity of any personal testimony that might be offered in a twelve-step group or on a talk show, unless the testimony itself is equivocal ... Whatever sells, whatever many people believe strongly, must be true. — Wendy Kaminer

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. — Daniel Greenberg

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie. — Woody Allen

When researchers looked at trends between diet and disease, as Himsworth and Joslin had done with diabetes and Keys and a later generation of researchers would do with heart disease and even cancer, they would measure only fat, protein, and total carbohydrate consumption and fail to account for any potential effect of refined carbohydrates. — Gary Taubes

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. — Michael Leunig

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy. — Greg Lake

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.' — Meister Eckhart

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage. — Luciano Pavarotti