What If Quotes - Page 9

• A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Memories, Emotional, Chess

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• It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

  Brad Pitt

  Selfish, Thinking, Trying

  "Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer my cell at a movie if it seems urgent?". www.wired.com. July 15, 2009.

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

  Bernie Siegel

  Jesus, Normal, Persons

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• And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Love You, People, Like You

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Forgiven, Stills

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Peace, War, Used

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• What if, along with our 'to do' list, we had a 'to be' list too?

  Ken Johnston

  Vision, Lists, Ifs

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• What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

  Nido R Qubein

  Teacher, Thinking, You Choose

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• Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?

  Milan Kundera

  Country, Husband, Betrayal

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• We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

  John Ortberg

  Humble, Humility, Christian Inspirational

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.173, Harper Collins

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• When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that 'I can do it' - is the opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation ... and eventually success.

  Howard Twilley

  Success, Faith, Motivation

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• If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what they are doing in the world instead of chastened for not doing more at church? What if church felt more like a way station than a destination? What if the church’s job were to move people out the door instead of trying to keep them in, by convincing them that God needed them more in the world than in the church?

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jobs, Believe, Moving

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.222, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

  Jennifer McMahon

  Magic, Special, Preparing

  Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Mean, Frustrated, Littles

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• I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

  Jean Gabin

  Song, Thinking, Sight

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• What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Fear, Sleep, Math

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.128, LSU Press

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• Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

  Doris Grumbach

  Self, Games, Space

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