100+ What If Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Al Siebert (2009). “The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Letting Go, What If, Going Away

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

topic: Dream, People, What If, Wondering What If

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

- Amory Lovins

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

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, What If

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

topic: Mistake, What If, Made, Made A Mistake

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

topic: People, Humanity, What If

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

- Andrei Platonov

topic: Thinking, What If, Carried Away

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

topic: People, Creative, What If, Pleasing People

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

topic: Fall, Wings, What If, Take Me Away

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

topic: Cutting, What If, Alive

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

source: "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Yesterday, What If, Pinterest

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

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Jesus, What If, Normal

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

source: "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

topic: Husband, What If, Ugly, Supermodel

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

topic: Safety, What If, Too Late

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

- Billy Joel

topic: Smart, What If, Unanswered Questions

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

topic: Children, Glasses, What If, This Too Shall Pass, Tomorrow Brings

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

- Brenda Shaughnessy

source: Brenda Shaughnessy (2012). “Our Andromeda”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Pain, Grief, What If

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

- Brendan Fraser

topic: What If, Tests, Juliet

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

topic: Thinking, Scary, What If, Wondering What If

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 agileâ€”more responsive to the Holy Spiritâ€”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

topic: Christian, Appreciate, What If

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Reality, What If, Things You Love

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

topic: Philosophical, Two, What If, Cautionary Tales

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

topic: Sports, Animal, What If

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

topic: Doors, What If, Trying

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

topic: Kindness, Enemy, What If

What if they gave a war and nobody came?

- Carl Sandburg

topic: War, What If, International Peace Day, World Peace Day, International Peace

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

topic: Forever, What If, Dying, Puzzle Piece

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

topic: What If, Stronger, Awful

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: What If, Tomorrow

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

topic: Mean, Frustrated, What If, Loving Something

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

source: Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin

topic: Thinking, What If, Pseudo

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

- Charlyne Yi

topic: Life Is Too Short, What If, Wonder, Wondering What If

What if the only resolution you made was to love yourself more?

- Cheryl Richardson

topic: Love You, What If, Resolution

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

topic: Sibling, Parent, What If

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

topic: Pride, Live Your Life, What If, Really Living, Unspoken Rules

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

topic: Boys, Ideas, What If, Polar Express

... 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

source: Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.388, Hachette UK

topic: Jesus, What If, Important

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Life, Reality, What If

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

- Cory Doctorow

source: Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.96, Macmillan

topic: Fighting, What If, Lightning

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

topic: Eye, Dragons, What If, Hiccups

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

- Dan Barker

topic: Atheist, Character, What If, Sesame Street

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 herâ€¦

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Girl, Guy, What If

What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

- Danielle LaPorte

topic: What If, Desire, Beacons, Tamed

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

- Darren Shan

topic: Ifs And, Perfect, What If

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

topic: Profound, What If, Growth, Stop Making Excuses, Making Excuses

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

- David Morrell

topic: Two, What If, World, Alchemy

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

- David Platt

topic: People, Inspire, What If

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

topic: What If, Band, Knees

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

- David Whyte

topic: Waiting, What If, World, Waiting For You

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

topic: Orange, What If, Pork, Pork Chops, Succulents

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

topic: What If, Stories, Highlander

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

- Dillon Burroughs

topic: America, What If, Church, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking

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

source: "Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High" by Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

topic: What If, Answers, Becoming, Fundamentalist

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

- E. Lockhart

source: E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

topic: Color, What If, Being Different, Different Colors

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

topic: Peace, War, What If, International Peace Day, World Peace Day

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

source: "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.

topic: Pyramids, Space, What If

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

source: Elin Hilderbrand (2014). “The Matchmaker”, p.68, Hachette UK

topic: Regret, What If, Done

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

- Elizabeth Scott

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

topic: Love You, People, What If

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

topic: What If, Matter, Building, Building Something

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

topic: Gun, Drug, What If, Drug Dealers

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

topic: Numbers, Issues, What If, Social Welfare

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

- Franz Kafka

topic: What If, Littles, Nonsense

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

topic: Rap, Black, What If

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

topic: Player, What If, Way

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

- Garry Wills

topic: War, What If, Danger

What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?

- Gary Marcus

topic: What If, Mind, Machines

But what if Shakespeareâ€• and Hamletâ€• were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

- Gayle Forman

topic: Real, What If, Asking

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

- George Carlin

topic: Inspirational, Life, What If

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

- George Eliot

topic: What If, Deeds

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

topic: Heart, Laughing, What If, Public Affairs

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

topic: People, Car, What If, Fatality

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

source: Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.12, Penguin

topic: Childhood, What If, Taught, Childhood Trauma, Forging Ahead

What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

- Herge

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

topic: What If, Whole Life

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

source: Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.277, Seal Press

topic: Thinking, Years, What If, Multinational Corporations

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

topic: Idols, What If, Would Be

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

topic: What If, World, Saws

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

topic: Character, What If, Spleen

What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?

- Jadakiss

source: Song: What If, Album: The Last Kiss, 2009

topic: Rap, Hip Hop, What If, Hurricane Katrina

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

source: "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future". Book by Jim Inhofe, 2012.

topic: Kids, What If, Twenties, Tax Increases

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

- James K. A. Smith

source: James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.18, Baker Academic

topic: Imagination, What If, Saturation

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

- James K. A. Smith

source: James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.18, Baker Academic

topic: What If, Firsts

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

topic: Book, Technology, What If, Blockbuster

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

topic: Reading, Interesting, What If, National Geographic

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

topic: Ifs And, Two, What If, Question Mark

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

- Jandy Nelson

topic: Heart, What If, Break

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

topic: Heart, What If, Break, Clarinet

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

- Janet Frame

topic: Giving, What If, Diaries

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

- Janine Benyus

topic: What If, Solve

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

topic: Anger, What If, Emotion, Angst

Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, What if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Reading, What If, Different, Paranormal

How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if I had an epileptic attack and started drooling or spitting right in the middle of things?

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Love You, What If, Middle, Drooling, Epileptics

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

topic: Children, Men, What If, Foster Care, Foster Children

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

- Jeff VanderMeer

source: Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Acceptance: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

topic: What If, Purpose, Invisible

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

- Jeffrey Eugenides

topic: People, Heaven, What If

What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.

- Jennifer Niven

source: Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Cutting, Giving, What If

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

- Jenny Han

topic: Giving, What If, Asking, Way Of Thinking, Road Not Taken

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

- Jeremy Narby

source: Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.37, Penguin

topic: Understanding, What If, Secret

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

- Jeremy Sisto

topic: Issues, What If, Comedy

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

topic: Self Esteem, What If, Events, Fooling Ourselves, Illusion Of Control

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

- Jim Gaffigan

source: "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

topic: People, Drunk, What If, Funny Thanksgiving Day, Thankful Thanksgiving

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Night, Tree, What If

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

- Joan Osborne

topic: Religious, What If, Religion

What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?

- Joanna Noelle Levesque

topic: What If, Males

Do not bother yourself with what ifs

- Jocelyn Murray

topic: What If, Bother

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Expectations, What If, World, Thoughts Of You

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

- John Flanagan

topic: Mistake, Learning, What If, Never Stop Learning, So Lucky

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

- John Milton

topic: Heaven, What If, Shadow

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

- John Ortberg

topic: Humble, Humility, What If

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

- Jon Krakauer

topic: Running, What If, Arms

Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

- Jon Ronson

topic: Impact, Insanity, What If

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

- Jonathan Carroll

topic: Men, What If, Way, Always Complaining

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

- Josh Linkner

source: Twitter post from Dec 17, 2011

topic: Ifs And, What If, Why Not

So what if you're not perfect? nobody else is either.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Perfect, What If, Not Perfect

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?

- Judd Hirsch

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

topic: Character, Talking, What If

What if obese people couldn't get married?

- Judy Gold

topic: People, What If, Married, Obese

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

- Julie Orringer

source: Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.17, Vintage

topic: What If, Stories, Failing

How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping!Â WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!

- Kai Greene

topic: Eye, What If, Bones, Snapping, Squat

I'm not a what-if and could-have person. I'm happy with my decisions.

- Kajol

topic: Ifs And, Decision, What If

Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?

- Karl Rove

topic: Guy, What If, Bombs, Radar

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

- Kate Atkinson

source: Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.11, Random House

topic: What If, Chance, Wonderful

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

- Kathy Reichs

topic: What If, Enough, Packs

What if someone comes?" I half-heartedly protest. "No one's coming here but you.

- Katy Evans

topic: What If, Half, Protest

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

- Ken Johnston

topic: What If, Vision, Lists

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

- Ken MacLeod

source: "The Falling Rate of Profit, Red Hordes and Green Slime: What the Fall Revolution Books Are About". "Nova Express", Volume 6, Spring/Summer 2001.

topic: What If, Impossible, Socialism

What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?

- Kirk Cameron

topic: What If, Christ

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

- Kirk Douglas

topic: Optimism, What If, Matter, Speech Impediment

What if your purpose is to take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others?

- Kris Carr

source: FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Apr 04, 2013

topic: Joy, What If, Energy, Impeccable

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Plato, What If, Meaning Of Life, Unexamined Life, Life Is Not Worth Living

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

- Laura Story

source: Laura Story (2012). “What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops: A 30 Day Devotional”, p.12, Worthy Publishing

topic: Rain, Night, What If

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

- Laura Story

source: Laura Story (2012). “What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops: A 30 Day Devotional”, p.12, Worthy Publishing

topic: Disappointment, What If, World

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

topic: Hard Times, People, What If

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

- Lauren Kate

source: Lauren Kate (2010). “Fallen”, Random House

topic: What If, Were Meant To Be, Persons

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

- Lauren Kate

topic: Soulmate, What If, Soul Mate, Lucinda Price, My Soul Mate

what if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.

- Lauren Kate

source: Lauren Kate (2012). “Lauren Kate: Fallen & Torment”, p.83, Random House

topic: Simple, What If, Arms

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

- Leslie Nielsen

topic: Practice, People, What If, Hearing Aids

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

topic: Memories, Emotional, What If

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: What If, Might, Boring

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

- Linwood Barclay

topic: Character, What If, Hook

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

- Lizz Winstead

source: Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

topic: Confidence, Self, What If, Flukes

What if there's no such thing as PMS and this is just my personality?

- Lois Greiman

source: Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.131, Dell

topic: Pms, Personality, What If

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

- Lois Lowry

topic: What If, Mates

What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?

- Loren Eiseley

topic: Fire, Order, What If, Combustion

What if you were really meant to be with someone? But you kept messing about and having the Horn and so on and you lost them.

- Louise Rennison

topic: What If, Lost, Horns

But what if we are dealing with fools?

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

topic: What If, Fool, Architecture

What, if as said, man is a bubble. [Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est ***** bulla, eo magis senex.]

- Marcus Terentius Varro

topic: Men, What If, Said

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

topic: What If, Trying, Wonder

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

- Maria Shriver

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

topic: Funny Inspirational, Accomplishment, What If

I'm haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make. The kind of world we'd create makes me want to cry sometimes.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Decision, What If, Together

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Inspiring, What If, Care

What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

- Mark Salzman

topic: Struggle, People, What If, Daily Struggle

What if living your life, naturally created what you wanted?

- Marshall Sylver

topic: Live Your Life, What If, Wanted

What if opportunity comes and you aren't prepared? If you don't prepare yourself for opportunity, one thing is certain, you won't win even when you get the chance. You must recognize the power of being prepared.

- Marshall Sylver

topic: Winning, Opportunity, What If

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

- Mary Balogh

source: Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.17, Dell

topic: What If, Safe, Looking For Love, Safe Places

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

- Matt Long

topic: Hate, Thinking, What If

I don't wanna go throught the motions I don't wanna go one more day Without your all-consuming Passion inside of me I don't wanna spend my whole life asking What if I had given everything? Instead of going through the motions.

- Matthew West

source: Matthew West, Angela Thomas (2011). “The Story of Your Life”, p.174, Harvest House Publishers

topic: Passion, What If, Asking, One More Day

What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

- Maurice Blanchot

source: Maurice Blanchot (1993). “The Infinite Conversation”, p.343, U of Minnesota Press

topic: Ideas, What If, Doe

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

- Max Brooks

topic: Cutting, People, What If, Supply Chain

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

- Max Lucado

topic: Motivational, Faith, What If

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

- Max Lucado

source: Twitter post from Nov 8, 2011

topic: Morning, Yesterday, What If

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

- Melanie Benjamin

topic: What If, Imagine

Royce looked back down at the stream below. "She doesn't even know me. What if she doesn't like me? Few people do." "She might not at first. Maribor knows I didn't. But you have a way of growing on a person." He smiled. "You know, like lichen or mold.

- Michael J. Sullivan

topic: People, What If, Growing

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if

- Michael Jordan

topic: Running, Missing, What If

What if I were Romeo in black jeans?

- Michael Penn

source: Song: No Myth Romeo In Black Jeans, Album: March

topic: Jeans, Black, What If

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

topic: What If, Doe

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?

- Muqtada al Sadr

topic: Land, What If, Flags, Headquarters

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

- Naomi Klein

topic: What If, World, Hoaxes

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

- Natsuo Kirino

topic: Order, What If, Accepting

But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? What if you jump? And just close your eyes? What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise? What if He's more than enough? What if it's love?

- Nichole Nordeman

source: Song: What If

topic: Eye, What If, Arms

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

- Nicolas Cage

topic: Art, Lying, What If

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

- Nido R Qubein

topic: Teacher, Thinking, What If

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Fire, What If, Window

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

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

topic: Mean, People, What If, 11th Hour

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

- Oriah Dreamer

topic: What If, Want, Authenticity

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: What If, Chaos, Turmoil

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

- P. C. Cast

topic: Giving, What If, Needs

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?,

- Paul Tough

source: Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: What If, Secret, Secret To Success

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

- Paulo Freire

topic: Life, What If, Way

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

- Peter D. Kramer

topic: Taken, Artist, What If

What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.

- Peter L. Bernstein

topic: What If, Investment, Rational

I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?

- Philip Guston

topic: Angel, What If, Everyday

What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

- Rachel Vincent

source: Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.193, Harlequin

topic: Light, What If, Popcorn, Kaylee

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

- Rainbow Rowell

source: Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.144, Hachette UK

topic: Thinking, What If, Good Things

What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just â€¦ bleak?

- Rainbow Rowell

topic: What If, Parks, Mysterious

Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Dream, What If, Earth

Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

- Richard Carmona

source: "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

topic: Boss, What If, World, Antibiotics

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

- Richard Russo

source: FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 02, 2012

topic: Simple, What If, New Friendship, Simple Words

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

- Richard Stearns

source: Richard Stearns (2009). “The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Children, Suffering, What If

What if thou be saint or sinner, Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,-- Empty paunch, or jolly dinner, When Death thee shall call. All like are rich or richer, King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher, When the grave hides all.

- Richard Watson Gilder

source: RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

topic: Death, Kings, What If

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

- Robert Breault

topic: What If, Parallel Universe, Universe

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

- Robert Cowley

topic: What If, Influence, Century

Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?