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What If Quotes

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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

What if the globe is in suspense - expecting you to occupy the distinctive role that nobody else can?
Authors on What If Quotes: Jodi Picoult Cheryl Strayed Rainbow Rowell Cassandra Clare Rick Riordan David Platt Lauren Kate Max Lucado John Flanagan Emily Giffin Stanley Kubrick Slavoj Žižek Whitley Strieber Rachel Vincent James K. A. Smith Patrick Rothfuss Marianne Williamson Margaret Atwood Stephen Chbosky Kate Atkinson Walter Wykes Seth Godin Robin McKinley Anne Lamott Jandy Nelson Veronica Roth Henry David Thoreau Rush Limbaugh Abbi Glines Sherrilyn Kenyon Melina Marchetta J. K. Rowling Jennifer Lopez
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What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?
Slavoj Žižek

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

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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

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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

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

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Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?
Elvis Presley

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What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.
Doug Stanhope

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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

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For the rest of my life I would always be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if. -Perseus Jackson
Rick Riordan

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What if there were no hypothetical questions?
George Carlin

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What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
Cheryl Strayed

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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

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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

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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

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What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
Stephen King

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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But what if we are dealing with fools?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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What if you just did it your own way? No rules, no right or wrong, just what you think is beautiful?
Sandra Magsamen

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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

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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! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!
Kai Greene

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But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?
Carl Jung

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

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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

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I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.
Shane Claiborne

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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
Allen Ginsberg

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If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!
Viktor Schauberger

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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

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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

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This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?
Michael W. Smith

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

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What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.
Carrie Fisher

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What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
Epicurus

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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

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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

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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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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

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

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

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What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
John Locke

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

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

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But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.
Jean Baudrillard

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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
Friedrich Nietzsche