Top 100 What If We Quotes
#1. Then one day in school, I turned round to the others and said, 'Dude, what if we started a band like All Time Low?
5 Seconds Of Summer
#2. Oh so what if where related, so what if we're not accepted, love knows no relation, no gender, no boundary. Love is exactly what it is and if no one else can see that, well fuck them
R.J. Seeley
#3. Yeah, but what if we got separated?
Why would we?
But just, what if?
We won't
Jennifer E. Smith
#5. What if we individually and collectively committed ourselves to the one thing that is needful - to replicating the loving sacrifice of Calvary to all people, at all times, in all places, regardless of their circumstances or merit? What if we just did the kingdom?
Gregory A. Boyd
#6. What if, we can actually make it work? What if it can actually come true?
Nina Moran
#7. What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out ...
Meg Cabot
#8. What if we could paint the moon a different color? Like - purple?
Tessa Emily Hall
#9. What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
Thomas Watson
#10. What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.
Sarah J. Maas
#11. Your job is just one tiny part of your life. We talk so much about choosing jobs or selecting careers. But what if we chose a life instead?
Emily Ley
#12. Why did you even bring a whip?"
"Because Tristan wouldn't let me bring the Thor hammer. Besides, you never know when you'll need a whip. What if we need to climb something really tall or swing across a deep chasm?
Chelsea Fine
#13. what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we're here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough?
Bob Goff
#15. But what if we find we don't suit?"
"Then ye'll do as the rest o' us and work at suiting.
Karen Hawkins
#16. We can't spend our lives wondering, 'what if?' We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones
Eve Silver
#17. I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.
Jean Gabin
#18. The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?
Terence McKenna
#19. We live in a society where people feel they have to be right, no matter what. If we subscribe to that narrow view, the critical gray area is compromised.
Carlos Wallace
#20. One of the reasons many of us avoid meditation is that we think of it as work - and work we may not do perfectly. What if we didn't have to do it perfectly? What if we didn't have to "do" it at all? What if we could rest - and let God do the rest?
Julia Cameron
#21. The important question to ask is not 'Will we surivive?' but 'What if we survive?'
Werner Erhard
#22. What if we promoted, like, Adidas or something? Would that make Nike mad enough to show up?
Rick Riordan
#23. Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.
Brian Williams
#24. We'd been born with our souls' fingers interlocked. What if we'd never let go?
Kat Zhang
#25. Yeah, sci-fi is definitely a big influence on Fear Factory. I've had people tell me we always sing about the same thing but it's like well, if we were a black metal band we'd sing about Satan, you know? What if we were a Christian metal band? All the songs would be about how much we loved Jesus.
Dino Cazares
#26. Do you think I want to spend my life with a man who could so easily abandon his own child? What if we did go west and had a child? If you saw some sweet young thing, maybe you'd run off with her and leave our child.
Jude Deveraux
#27. What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?
Richard Stearns
#28. My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
David Mamet
#29. Here's a thought. What if we were to .
Kate White
#30. What if we lived like Jesus really did rise from the dead?
Sarah Holman
#31. Every time I hold your hand in the night and look at that star, I remember the fact that it is millions of light years away from us, we are looking at its past and it doesn't exist anymore and I always end up feeling, what if we both are made up of the dust of the same star we are staring at.
Akshay Vasu
#32. Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are the only ones left
who will know our stories then? Who will remember those?
Carrie Ryan
#33. I looked back to the hole. What if we were digging our own grave?
Ruta Sepetys
#34. I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
Buzz Aldrin
#35. We do not look bad, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on.'
'What if we go on only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?'
'Then it is not the end.
Sarah J. Maas
#36. Harry," she said. "What if we can't find out who is doing it in time?" "We'll find them," I said. "But if we don't?" "Then we fight monsters." Murphy took a deep breath and nodded as we stepped out into the summer night. "Damn right we do.
Jim Butcher
#37. What if death drives us insane? What if we survive, but it drives us insane? What then?
Stephen King
#38. What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?
Cecelia Ahern
#39. Tell me which places lie along your routes, and I will tell you who you are. What if, by connecting all of these points on a map, we discover something special about ourselves? What if we see the silhouette of fate, the secret sign that marks each of us?
Nadezhda Belenkaya
#40. What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time ... ?
Anne Lamott
#41. What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?
Jodi Picoult
#42. What if we started every decision by asking some simple questions: What are we giving up by making this choice? What else could we do with the same time and money?
Chip Heath
#43. But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
Matt Groening
#45. What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and quickly exit?
Holly Sprink
#46. 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
#47. Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#48. What if we didn't all grow up hearing that true love is obsessive and possessive? What if, like the Mosuo, we revered the dignity and autonomy of those we loved? What if, in other words, sex, love, and economic security were as available to us as they were to our ancestors?
Christopher Ryan
#49. Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
Buzz Aldrin
#50. 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
#51. What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
Amory Lovins
#53. Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?
Randy Alcorn
#54. The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
Isabel Allende
#55. On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?
Cynthia Daignault
#56. You're making me get used to sleeping at night," she said. "Plus, I don't sleep in my clothing anymore." "If you did, it would make things a little awkward." "Yes," she said, "but what if we get attacked during the night? I'd have to fight them naked." "I wouldn't mind watching that." She
Brandon Sanderson
#57. What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?
Anne Lamott
#58. But what if we fail' they ask, whispering the dreaded word across the Generation Gap to their parents. 'Don't' they whisper back. What they should say is 'Don't be afraid to fail. Failure isn't fatal
William Zinsser
#59. Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!
Lisa Bevere
#60. But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy
#61. 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
#62. What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#63. Creeds/Confessions: What if we wrote new creeds that put love in the spotlight? Imagine if, instead of reciting a statement of beliefs, we spoke confessions of love, beginning with "We love" rather than "We believe.
Brian McLaren
#64. 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
#65. Okay. What if we were the last two people on Earth?" "Then you'd still end up being the last, because I'd kill myself.
Rick Yancey
#66. But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people's pain into something beautiful?
Danielle LaPorte
#67. Big worms that move through the sand like it's water." Roger's level arm went up and down in a smooth wave. "Or the big thing in Star Wars. What if we step down there and the sand just turns into a big pit with a mouth at the bottom?" "For the record, it's called a Sarlacc," Xela said.
Peter Clines
#68. What if we both can't win?" "I've already told you what happens then." "What?" "I give you the plank, Karissa." It takes a moment for her to understand. The Plank of Carneades.
J.M. Darhower
#69. What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#70. 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
#71. What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
Andrei Platonov
#72. 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
#73. No one seems to be trying hard enough to do anything... What if we made them all chronically dissatisfied?
Stefan Merrill Block
#74. Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.
Marcus Samuelsson
#75. 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
#76. What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into a brook might change the course a hundred miles downstream?
Dana Gioia
#77. 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
#78. And you can't miss what you don't know. Except . . ." I lean forward so that I'm facing her. "What if we were wrong?
Jen Malone
#79. -But now we worry - what if we will never die?-
-Would that be a bad thing?-
-For me, yes. I would not want to go on and on forever. Would you? Think about it.-
Lisa McMann
#80. What if we all started measuring our success as mothers based on our areas of innate strength instead of weakness and trusted God enough to fill in the gaps?
Stacey Thacker
#81. 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
#82. What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
Paulo Freire
#83. WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars ...
Phil Harding
#84. 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
#85. So what if we have chemistry. Chemistry doesn't miraculously turn bad boys into good ones.
Simone Elkeles
#86. What if we started to live our real lives like gamers, lead our real businesses and communities like game designers, and think about solving real-world problems like computer and video game theorists?
Jane McGonigal
#87. Your father and I haven't had this much quality time since our honeymoon."
"So what?"
"So, what if we can't stand each other?
Lisa Lutz
#88. Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?
Janet Skeslien Charles
#89. What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?
Walter Wykes
#90. Levi opened his smile up completely.
"Oh, put that away," Cath said with distaste. "I don't want you to get charm all over my sister-what if we can't get it out?
Rainbow Rowell
#91. What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
E. Lockhart
#92. 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
#93. I feel a surge of hope for the first time in days. "Haeden," I breathe, looking over at him. "What if we had our khuis removed to get out of the resonance?
Ruby Dixon
#94. We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us ... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?
J.G. Farrell
#95. What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?
Tara Brach
#96. What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love?
Donald Miller
#97. We are so trained into believing the worst, into thinking some people are beyond hope. What if it's our lack of belief that makes people hopeless? What if we can change the world just by hoping for the best instead of settling for the worst?
Marilyn Grey
#98. What if we still ride on, we two
With life for ever old yet new,
Changed not in kind but in degree,
The instant made eternity
Robert Browning
#99. Smack me if we ever get that awful."
"But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?"
"We shall work out a smacking code.
Gina Damico
#100. We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.
John Cage
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