Quotes About What Might Happen

#1. I have been thinking about what might happen if they installed clappers to turn on and off the lights in a concert hall. Maybe they could spare the cost of hiring some people for the next rock concert.

Linnea Gelland

#2. Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Mark Lawrence

#3. How do you think the Dharma is able to describe the death process in such detail? It's not a whole bunch of lamas sit around speculating on what might happen. It's because they actually go through it. Frequently.

David Michie

#4. If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Thomas Sowell

#5. A daily newspaper is destined to become like a weekly magazine. We'll be talking about what might happen tomorrow, with feature articles, investigative supplements, unexpected predictions ...

Umberto Eco

#6. Neither one of you will just come out and say it, that's the problem. You're both so scared of what might happen that you're fighting it tooth and nail. I know for a fact that if you looked Travis in the eye and told him you wanted him, he would never look at another woman again.

Jamie McGuire

#7. So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.

Camille Dungy

#8. First you get a dog, and then you develop a taste for wine. God knows what might happen next.

James Runcie

#9. History mattered. But it could not guarantee what might happen next.

Michelle Gable

#10. I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

Fernando Torres

#11. This is no time for inactivity or despair. Off with the mourning clothes. Take some chances; take the initiative. You never know what might happen. You might have a part in bringing Christ to the world. Grace

Max Lucado

#12. Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. We know worry is destructive, and yet we continue to be choked by anxiety over what might happen.

Linda Dillow

#13. When I told my mother about them, she said she had similar attacks, and that they did no harm and lasted only a few minutes. With this, I started to look forward to my occasional attacks, wondering what might happen in the next one

Oliver Sacks

#14. We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

Greg Graffin

#15. Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.

Isha Judd

#16. As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.

Shelley Hamlin

#17. Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

Robin Hobb

#18. Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

Christiane Northrup

#19. What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

Gardner Dozois

#20. You enter a novel as you enter a house of strangers not knowing who you may meet or what might happen. Like a mirror maze, you must follow the reflections and distortions to the secrets veiled by the words.

Chloe Thurlow

#21. Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

Nancy Farmer

#22. I'd like to think that, in the United States, you can criticize a company that makes hamburgers without having to worry about what might happen to you.

Eric Schlosser

#23. He seemed to study her. "I think I might surprise you." She feared that was definitely what might happen.

B. J. Daniels

#24. As long as we're preoccupied with our former traumas and triumphs, or our fears and dreams about what might happen down the road, or who said what to whom, it's very difficult to appreciate and cherish the intrinsically joyful gift of life right here and now.

Lama Surya Das

#25. Republican party leaders have been worrying about the damage a [Donald] Trump nomination could do to the party, but also what might happen if he left the GOP and took his supporters with him. But Trump said he would stay a Republican and do everything in his power to beat Hillary Clinton.

Ted Cruz

#26. I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.

Cherie Blair

#27. You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

Michelle Obama

#28. You can live a hundred years and never really live one minute if for of what could happen, what might happen prevents you from goin' after what you want

Julie Ann Walker

#29. Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#30. But I do know that living in fear of what might happen prevents us from enjoying what we have today.

Ruby Dixon

#31. In those moments, none of it matters. It's like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don't even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself.

Jennifer Niven

#32. I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

Lois Lowry

#33. I embarked on a campaign of honey and kindness, which, if you've never tried it, is very hard to do with someone who thinks you are chickenhearted and has in the past called you a poxy sluggard. It is especially hard if every day you are plagued with fear about what might happen next.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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#35. We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.

Zig Ziglar

#36. Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.

Linda Dillow

#37. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Paulo Coelho

#38. He does hesitate, just for a moment, but he knows he will hate himself later if he doesn't at least try, no matter what might happen after.

Erin Morgenstern

#39. Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

Susanna Kearsley

#40. Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Frank Gehry

#41. Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#42. It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

#43. ... there was a pattern to how things were done, rules we followed. Not following meant not knowing what might happen.

Gin Phillips

#44. The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational.
There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole - they will speak to you in profound ways.

Adele Theron

#45. Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.

Karan Casey

#46. What might happen if writing were a shared endeavor, meant t connect people instead of being hoarded as a tool of power and privilege.

Kathy MacMillan

#47. I remembered what Olaf always said: You must never give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way down.

Nancy Farmer

#48. I felt bad about dirtying their comforter with my nasty clothes, but who knew what might happen later. If something else bizarre went down and I had to run, I sure didn't want to do it butt naked.

Mike Mullin

#49. Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Deborah Smith

#50. We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.

Elisabeth Elliot

#51. You'd die for them, happily," Hal had said, in the long night watch when I'd kept him breathing. "Your family. But at the same time you think, Christ, I can't die! What might happen to them if I weren't here?

Diana Gabaldon

#52. I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna 20,000 years ago, worrying about what's right behind that bush is a lot more important than worrying about what might happen three weeks from now.

James Surowiecki

#53. We think we're so important, that we are the keepers of the keys, but in reality, we're nothing more than children stumbling around in the dark, flicking switches and trampling on ants' nests just to see what might happen.

C.J. Waller

#54. But I did it because you can't constantly be afraid of what might happen. If you do, you lose control of what is happening, and all the joy and pain it holds for you.

Nora Roberts

#55. Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

Cedric Hardwicke

#56. You don't give up at the beginning just because you're afraid of what might happen at the end. If it's worth it, then it's worth it,

Siri Mitchell

#57. For what might happen if we lift
the codicils on belching?
If sex were permitted in the shopping malls? If people
were allowed to sing arias
from Don Giovanni, loudly and out of tune, waiting in line
at Department of Motor Vehicles?

Lucia Perillo

#58. What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

Susan Block

#59. I said I didn't believe in the prophecies. I don't believe they all come true. I believe we always have choices. Even Sage can't tell us what is going to happen. Only what might happen. And sometimes prophecies are just wrong.

Elly Blake

#60. You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#61. I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

Terry Pratchett

#62. True fear has nothing to do with what might happen to you, however painful or vile that might be. True fear is all about what might happen to someone you love.

Erin Kellison

#63. When storms come, we naturally want to run. What might happen in your friendship if you learned instead to stay put when storm hit?

Afton Rorvik

#64. I decided to stop worrying about what "might happen," and concentrate on what "was happening." What a magical moment of Buddhist insight!

Michael Lisagor

#65. My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

Tracy Chevalier

#66. The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.

Gary Hamel

#67. The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

Gary Hamel

#68. I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.

Paulo Coelho

#69. These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off.

Stephen Richards

#70. The fear of what might happen in the future is almost always worse than the future that eventually arrives.

Alexander McCall Smith

#71. I think a lot of people still fantasise about that first love and what might happen if they rekindled the relationship.

Sophie Kinsella

#72. Leo didn't laugh.
He also didn't cry. Which it looked for a minute like he might do. I knew that feeling. Hold your mouth tight, tell your heart not to hurt, tell your brain not to think about what might happen next.

Ally Condie

#73. Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#74. We don't have all the answers. A few months ago, that would have driven me crazy. Now I know sometimes you have to just take life for what it is instead of worrying about what might happen.

Amy Patrick

#75. Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.

Martin Brodeur

#76. You can be completely sure what might happen next.

Lauren Child

#77. As he made his way, he ploughed his bare feet through the mud as a child, head bowed as a child, interested as a child neither in where he was going nor in what might happen next but only in the furrow his foot opened that vanished a moment later.

Richard Flanagan

#78. ( ... ) next year she would have another birthday, and if she just remembered to get into bed left foot first and to turn the pillow over before she went to sleep, who knows what might happen?

William Faulkner

#79. ...I'm going to stop worrying about what might happen to us. With the Lord's help we've been able to make ourselves a good living ever since Father died, and the fortune that has befallen us here in Medford certainly doesn't lead me to believe we will be abandoned now.

Ralph Moody

#80. In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

Harry Callahan

#81. We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the only time anything happens. When we are awake in our lives, we know what's happening. When we're asleep, we don't see what's right in front of us.

Sylvia Boorstein

#82. But imagining what might happen if one's circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness. Sitting

Amor Towles

#83. The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

DeVon Franklin

#84. I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

Bela Lugosi

#85. You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.

Nicholas Sparks

#86. You can't be so frightened of what might happen that you are unwilling to act.

Brandon Sanderson

#87. It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next.

Paul Rusesabagina

#88. The Internet, and the computers that made it possible, came from a rather dark place, much more missile than ballet, and they might yet return there. This book is about how and why that could happen, and what might be done about it.

Scott Malcomson

#89. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#90. So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

Edward Witten

#91. One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

C.S. Lewis

#92. 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

#93. Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Billy Graham

#94. My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it
does is that because the world is willing to listen to
them, it gives the kids a confidence and and a belief that
... what has happened before might happen again. It's something
to aim for.

Jimi Goodwin

#95. Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!

David Ryan

#96. If I'm going to be ruled by a high-minded pretty-faced troll, it might as well be you."
"I'm glad to hear it," I said, trying not to smile. "Who knows what would happen to my ego if you decided to abandon me.

Danielle L. Jensen

#97. One question such events provoke is "What kind of God allows this to happen?" Another question we might ask is, "What kind of creatures are human beings that we should cause and allow this to happen?

John E. Goldingay

#98. How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.

Marcus Aurelius

#99. As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Bill Courtney

#100. I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50-years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.

Walter White