What If famous quotes
04-19-2025
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She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.
-- Abbi Glines -
What if when they called a war, no one went?
-- Abbie Hoffman -
If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
-- Adam Carolla -
What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!
-- Adam Ferrara -
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
-- Adyashanti -
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là ", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
-- African Spir -
Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?
-- Al Siebert -
I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
-- Alex Haley -
I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, ‘How do we make people pay for music?’ What if we started asking, ‘How do we LET people pay for music?’
-- Amanda Palmer -
What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
-- Amory Lovins -
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?
-- Amy Chua -
They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?
-- Amy Jenkins -
One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?
-- Andre Suares -
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
-- Andrei Platonov -
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
-- Anne Lamott -
And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.
-- Anne Rice -
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
-- Barry Lyga -
I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.
-- Ben Silbermann -
What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
-- Bernie Siegel -
My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.
-- Beverly Johnson -
You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today.
-- Billy Graham -
What if she figures out you're not very smart?
-- Billy Joel -
What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.
-- Bob Weir -
What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?
-- Brenda Shaughnessy -
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
-- Brendan Fraser -
But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?
-- Brené Brown -
What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?
-- Brian D. McLaren -
What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?
-- Bruce Springsteen -
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.
-- Bryce Dallas Howard -
We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I grew up in a Chicken Coop and I was not a Chicken at first, until I was faced with your World!
-- Buckethead -
When one door closes, find another." Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?" "Then you try the window." "And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked. "Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.
-- C.C. Hunter -
What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?
-- Carl Jung -
Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?
-- Carol Rifka Brunt -
So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.
-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?
-- Cecelia Ahern -
What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?
-- Chang-Rae Lee -
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
-- Charles Baudelaire -
My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?
-- Charles Fort -
Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'
-- Charlyne Yi -
What if the only resolution you made was to love yourself more?
-- Cheryl Richardson -
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
-- Chester Brown -
In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?
-- Chris Noth -
The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?
-- Christopher Moore -
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
-- Cory Doctorow -
GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?
-- Cressida Cowell -
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
-- Dan Barker -
Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like, 5 guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her…
-- Daniel Tosh -
What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
-- Danielle LaPorte -
It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.
-- Darren Shan -
What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.
-- David Meerman Scott -
" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
-- David Morrell -
What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?
-- David Platt -
What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?
-- David Platt -
What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?
-- David Whyte -
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?
-- Dean Koontz -
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?
-- Diana Gabaldon -
What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?
-- Dillon Burroughs -
And what if there’s nothing in there?’ You die and there’s nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long.
-- Dmitry Glukhovsky -
If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.
-- Duff Goldman -
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
-- E. Lockhart -
As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.
-- Ed Asner -
You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.
-- Eddie Griffin -
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.
-- Elin Hilderbrand -
And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?
-- Elizabeth Scott -
What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?
-- Eric Ries -
We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.
-- Erin Burnett -
What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.
-- Ernesto Zedillo -
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
-- Franz Kafka -
What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil. Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal?
-- Fredro Starr -
A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.
-- Fuzzy Zoeller -
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
-- Garry Wills -
What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?
-- Gary Marcus -
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
-- Gayle Forman -
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
-- George Carlin -
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
-- Golda Meir -
92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?
-- Haruki Murakami -
Our cover has always been really important. For those of you who haven’t seen itCharles Burns, who is a graphic artist, does four portraits, so it’s split into quadrants and there’s four heads, basically—portraits of people. We’ve actually often thought and freaked out, what if something happened to Charles Burns? Because he’s so identified with the cover of our magazine, I don’t know what we would do if anything happened to Charles Burns.
-- Heidi Julavits -
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?
-- Heidi Julavits -
What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?
-- Herge -
What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?
-- Inga Muscio -
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?
-- Isak Dinesen -
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.†“And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?†“Throw it away and punch him on the nose,†Ron suggested.
-- J. K. Rowling -
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
-- Jack Dee -
But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.
-- Jacques Derrida -
When I was ambushed by global warming advocates recently-no, they haven't given up-they asked me the same questions they always ask: "What if you're wrong?" and "If you're wrong will you apologize to future generations?" I always answer, "What if you're wrong? Will you apologize to my twenty kids and grandkids for the largest tax increase in American history?" They usually don't have anything to say after that.
-- James Inhofe -
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
-- James K. A. Smith -
What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?
-- James K. A. Smith -
What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?
-- James Morcan -
I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting What if? will pop into my head.
-- James Rollins -
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
-- James Rollins -
But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
-- Jandy Nelson -
I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
-- Jandy Nelson
