What If Quotes - Page 20

• What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

  Stasi Eldredge

  Captivating, Strive, Genuine

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

  Neko Case

  Mother, Choices, Abortion

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• What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate... There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.

  Oren Lyons

  Mean, People, May

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?

  Colin Rowe

  Couple, Fall, Airplane

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• What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is already a class of people who think in this way. They are called mystics, and they say it is all God. Finally, a few scientists dared to say that some of the characteristics attributed to God are similar to what we describe as consciousness.

  Amit Goswami

  Thinking, Class, People

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• Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

  Kathy Ireland

  Integrity, Character, Mean

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• I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sex, Numbers, Guy

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• What if God’s 'NO,’ is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Saying No, Growing, Way

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 08, 2014

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• Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Dream, Mean

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013

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• "But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

  George MacDonald

  God, Christian, Religious

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Personality

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

  Robert Breault

  Education, Children, Animal

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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 free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, People, Allies

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

  Dave Barry

  Numbers, Kind, Computer

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.43, Rodale

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• As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

  Jeanne Woodford

  Children, Men, Abuse

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, School

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• What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss.

  Robert Breault

  Parallel Universe, Parallels, Ifs

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• I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Hard Times, People, Want

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• The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

  Maria Shriver

  Trying, Wonder, Bigs

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• What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

  Max Lucado

  Morning, Yesterday, Ifs

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2011

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• What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

  Seth Godin

  Bigger, Ifs

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

  John Cleese

  Strong, Children, Years

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• WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

  Phil Harding

  Friendship, Relationship, Family

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