What If Quotes - Page 19

• I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Fall, Creativity

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• 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

  Profound, Growth, Failing

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• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

  Jay Sekulow

  Anger, Emotion, Bigs

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• ... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

  Stephen King

  Wisdom, Baby, Growing Up

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• I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?

  Calvin Trillin

  Real, Kids, Years

  Calvin Trillin (1990). “Travels with Alice”

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• What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

  Emilie Autumn

  Home, Angel, Wings

  Song: Epilogue: What If, 2007

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• What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Husband, Writing, Long

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”

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• What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, Wake Up, Far Away

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state?

  Robert Nozick

  Strong, Rights, Groups

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• I don’t think there's ever been a point in my career where I've said, 'I've made it.' What does that mean, 'I've made it?' Made it to what? If you say, 'I've made it.' then are you finished? I don't want to be finished. I don't want to quit.

  Reba McEntire

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

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• What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

  Amory Lovins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Energy

  "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.

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• What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

  Reuben Heyday Margolin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Fighting, Bad Relationship

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2006.

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• 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

  Dream, People, Tests

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• What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?

  Bernie Siegel

  Jesus, Normal, Persons

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• We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

  Mike Lupica

  Doe, One Thing, Ifs

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• What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

  Wayne Muller

  Kindness, Healing, World

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• What if miliseconds influence centuries?

  Robert Cowley

  Influence, Century, Ifs

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• We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.

  Patti Stanger

  Issues, Giving, Guy

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• What if the world is holding its breath -
  waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

  David Whyte

  Waiting, World, Breaths

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• What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

  Marianne Williamson

  Order, Relax, Together

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• 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

  Band, Knees, Affection

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, Patterns, Illusion Of Control

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• But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

  Seth Godin

  Stronger, Trying, Succeed

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