Quotes About What Might Happen

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

C.S. Lewis

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

James Runcie

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Michelle Gable

#21. 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

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

Fernando Torres

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.

Eoin Colfer

#28. I loved him. I loved him in a way I'd never loved another person. I could only see him. I could only fear for him and what would happen to him when this was over. He'd sacrificed his reputation knowing he might have nothing left. For me.

Mercy Celeste

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. We can't live crippled by what we're scared might happen. We have to live in the moment, happy with what we have.

Kristen Ashley

#32. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Richard Martin Stern

#33. 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

#34. Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity.

Hugh Dalton

#35. 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

#36. Of course there's a risk that that could happen, but what is the alternative? To never allow myself to get close to anyone ever again? Never know the joy of loving someone for fear that it could end up in tears? My heart might stay safe, but it wouldn't be much of a life.

Chantelle Shaw

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

B. J. Daniels

#43. 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

#44. If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

Lewis Carroll

#45. Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time.

Margaret Yorke

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

Robert Downey Jr.

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

Michelle Obama

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I don't want to know, when I'm playing a moment in the current episode, what's going to happen because it might change how I'm playing that.

John Barrowman

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

Ruby Dixon

#54. 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

#55. The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that's honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.

Vince Vaughn

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

Lois Lowry

#57. My family didn't have money, and I think it made me fearless. I'm willing to try everything and not be afraid because what's the worst that can be happen? It might not work out, but I can't be worse off than when I was a kid.

Cristela Alonzo

#58. 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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#60. No matter what might ever happen to me, you are not allowed to hurt yourself!

Stephenie Meyer

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

Zig Ziglar

#62. You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

Simone Elkeles

#63. Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.

Larry Page

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#70. 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

#71. I ought to get some shut-eye. All this thinking isn't doing me any good. Something good might happen tomorrow, anyway. Today's over now. I can't do anything about that. Tomorrow's what's important now. What will I do tomorrow?

Ao Jyumonji

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

Gin Phillips

#73. It's not the monsters who are so completely different that are scary, Sanjit reflected. It's the ones who are too human. They carry with them the warning that what happened to them might happen to you, too.

Michael Grant

#74. 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

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

Karan Casey

#76. Enjoy what you have this moment. Don't wait around for something that might not happen.

Xena Thornton

#77. 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

#78. If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people.

Paul Wall

#79. 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

#80. And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could ever do, beyond suffering, was wait and see what might be going to happen next.

Richard Yates

#81. 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

#82. But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.

Jean Rhys

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

Deborah Smith

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. Expandable is exactly what a marriage is. If you refuse the possibility that bad things might happen, a marriage cannot survive.

Courtney Maum

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.

Laura Schroff

#91. Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

Ian Hacking

#92. Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

Andrew Klavan

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

Cedric Hardwicke

#94. Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

J. E. Buckrose

#95. I had no fucking life before you. You are my life. Without you, I might as well take a shotgun to my head and join you in the dirt because, Tess, if you leave me - if you're so fucking weak not to fight, then that is what will happen to me. You'll crucify me.

Pepper Winters

#96. I'm not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.

Adam Brown

#97. Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#98. Don't announce what you fear could happen or someone evil might make it come true.

Patricia Cornwell

#99. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad

Fred Gipson

#100. A word of advice: your interview is about you. It's not about the school you went to, what you majored in, what your GPA was, or who your parents happen to be or know. Most of that stuff is right on your resume, and it might even have gotten you into the room, but it won't get you much farther.

Ivanka Trump