Top 100 Quotes About Ifs
#1. The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.
Wally Lamb
#3. What are the "ifs" and "buts" that limit my enjoyment of life?
John Powell
#4. She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.
Judi Fennell
#5. If you live your life worried about the what-ifs, you're going to live a very desolate life.
Katherine Bogle
#6. I'm not interested in waiting around and risking the who-knows and the what-ifs and the huge regrets. I want to feel all of it ...
Tahereh Mafi
#7. There's a million what-ifs in life. You just have to keep yourself from thinking about the bad ones.
Juliette Fay
#8. Life was messy, filled with countless worries, questions - what ifs. The real question was not how a person conquered the what ifs, but how one learned to live in spite of them - even when faced with the reality that the answers weren't always pretty.
Angela Lynn
#9. All your troubles are due to those 'ifs', declared the Wizard.
L. Frank Baum
#11. What-ifs are kind of like ex-boyfriends. The more attention you give them, the more likely they are to stalk you and show up in you bedroom closet when you are getting out of the shower.
Kristen Day
#12. When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
Cate Marvin
#13. If, Your Highness, is a word that will steal your soul. Do not waste your thoughts on ifs. What is done is done. Look to the future.
Jill Williamson
#15. I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
Maria Shriver
#16. The ifs and buts of history ... form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.
Vikram Seth
#17. With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it.
Bill Bruford
#18. Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the "What ifs" and "If onlys.
Justin Young
#19. Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
Robert Frost
#20. There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.
Lou Rawls
#21. There are always those ifs when something goes wrong. We can't blame ourselves. It's just a bunch of little choices that don't mean anything till the shit hits the fan, and then you look back and see how you got there. And you find a whole string of ifs going back forever.
Richard Kelly
#22. 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
#24. Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.
Kami Garcia
#25. Ifs and would-haves changed nothing.
Ann Leckie
#26. God is so much bigger than our 'what ifs' that he can turn them into 'why nots
Gary Rohrmayer
#27. Love? It's when you don't give a thought to all the ifs and want-to's in the world. It's when if all the fires of hell were between you, you'd walk in them gladly to be with him, and sing with joy at your own burnin' if only his kiss was on your mouth.
Stephanie Kallos
#28. Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.
Gary Zukav
#29. I don't see a gray area when it comes to writers. You either are, or you are not. You give it every ounce of your being, or you end up with blank pages and 'What ifs'.
J.B. Jenn
#30. You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
Sally Gardner
#31. How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs.
Nicola Morgan
#32. I promised myself no regrets," she whispered into the darkness. "No what-ifs, no second guessing. I promised myself that I was going to live my life, instead of always taking the safe route.
Susan Mallery
#33. Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.
Justin Cronin
#34. A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman
#35. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking . I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.
Jenny Han
#36. If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas,
Gillian Flynn
#38. If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...
Margaret Mitchell
#39. Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
Andy Stanley
#40. Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream
of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete
lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,
Glenn Kurtz
#41. 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
#42. I told you it's pointless talking about ifs and if nots. But...I do think it's nice if there could come a time where we could have fun talking about if and if nots, no matter how pointless it is...You know, I feel really happy right now. I'm so glad I was able to meet you in this life. Thank you.
Inio Asano
#43. Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Julian Baggini
#44. That's life, little one - lots of little maybes and what ifs all lined up in a row. And if you put your mind to following some of them that never came about, you'll get lost and not find your way back to the way it really is.
Mindy McGinnis
#45. Do you think I'll let it go, that I'll hide from it because you, who's anything but a coward, is afraid of what ifs?
Nora Roberts
#46. I get lost in ifs. They are always there if if if if and I should only be able to tune in to them if I'm on the right
frequency. But that's the thing about me: The frequencies don't divide.
David Levithan
#47. CHRISTINE: I'd rather have a pile of mistakes than a handful of what ifs.
Bijou Hunter
#48. House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.
John Boehner
#49. If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.
Brandon Jacobs
#50. At a con there's one hundred percent acceptance, no ifs, ands, or buts. This is the one place where anyone can go and not be judged.
Brian Katcher
#51. Ifs, buts, and perhapses, are sure murderers of peace and comfort. Doubts are dreary things in times of sorrow.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#52. There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.
CLAMP
#53. Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.
Bethany Hamilton
#54. Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension.
It's a voyage into the archives of the human imagination.
A passport to all what ifs.
Natasha Tsakos
#55. In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.
Jeff Greenfield
#56. He'd said when. Even in his beaten condition, he believed in whens and not ifs. She never should have doubted his strength
Veronica Rossi
#57. But if I've done something wrong there's no "ifs" and "buts"
Cause I love you just as much as I hate your guts
Elvis Costello
#58. if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, then we'd never go hungry.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. There are no ifs and buts in life. If they exist in life, then we are living in coincidence.
Santosh Kalwar
#61. Just be careful of the what-ifs, she warns. They'll tumble in your head like laundry that won't dry.
Rodney Ross
#62. All the most terrifying ifs involve people. All the good ones do as well.
Hanya Yanagihara
#63. Betsie, if I hadn't heard you in the kitchen - " But Betsie put a finger on my mouth. "Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'ifs' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!" T
Corrie Ten Boom
#64. fear actually relies on faith...it's simply faith in the wrong things. Fear is placing you faith in "what ifs" rather in than in "God is
Craig Groeschel
#67. But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
#68. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
#69. Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart.
Jenny B. Jones
#70. There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his.
Rachel Vincent
#71. If 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts we'd all have a Merry Christmas.
Julia Mills
#73. What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.
Obert Skye
#74. There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.
Corrie Ten Boom
#75. The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.
Dean Potter
#76. No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.
George Osborne
#77. Well, if ifs and nuts were candy and nuts, then we'd all have a Merry Christmas. (Serenity)
Kinley MacGregor
#78. If every hero stopped to think about all the what-ifs in his path, none of us would ever take one step beyond our own doorways.
Esther M. Friesner
#79. The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
Norman Vincent Peale
#80. Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened
Roger Zelazny
#81. But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium?
William Dalrymple
#82. Raffy has this magical, abracadabrical ability to transform all his "ifs" into "whens".
Karen Russell
#83. These people were smiling because they were where they wanted to be. They understood that life is too short for what-ifs and complications. Life, they found, can be as simple as reading the wind.
Brad Herzog
#84. Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.
Emma Stone
#86. You're worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?
Shannon Celebi
#87. And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.
Sarah Dessen
#88. The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
#90. Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.
Nadia Janice Brown
#91. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.
Allison Winn Scotch
#92. Maybe the real freedom is in letting go of the what-ifs. Choosing hopeful expectation over worry that life is going to shortchange you.
Melissa Tagg
#93. But that's the thing with the what -if game- you really never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Because underneath the surface what-ifs are much worse ones.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#94. What-ifs multiplied like a combat-ready squad of Star Trek Tribbles: cute, furry, and armed with bazookas.
Barbara Claypole White
#95. I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.
Dan Groat
#97. Advance beyond these dreary "ifs;" abide no more in the wilderness of doubts and fears; cross the Jordan of distrust, and enter the Canaan of peace, where the Canaanite still lingers, but where the land ceaseth not to flow with milk and honey.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.
Norm Coleman
#99. Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.
Gene Sarazen
#100. Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Amy Winehouse
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