What If Quotes - Page 28

• The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

  Neil Gaiman

  One Day, Daleks, Killing

  Neil Gaiman (2015). “Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances”, p.203, Hachette UK

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• Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, America, Rocks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.193, Delphi Classics

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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

  Leader, Doe, Want

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• But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

  Woody Allen

  Needs, Ears, World

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

  Pema Chodron

  Accepted, Uncertainty Of Life, Disheartened

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• What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

  Plato

  Men, Vanity, Becoming

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• When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

  Torii Hunter

  Silly, White, Balls

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• Some people my accuse me of doing too much. Sometimes I agree with them. But then there is a part of me that wants to follow God --- wholeheartedly, completely and full throttle, wherever He may lead. I don't want to look back fifty years from now and think, What if I had trusted God? Where would I be?

  Tricia Goyer

  Thinking, Years, People

  FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Jan 24, 2015

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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

  Sea, Swim, Today

  Michael W. Smith, Gary Lee Thomas (2000). “This Is Your Time: Make Every Moment Count”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't believe in soul mates, not exactly. I think it's ridiculous to think there's only one person out there for us. What if your 'soul mate' lives in Zimbabwe? What if he dies young? I also think 'two souls becoming one' is ridiculous. You need to hold on to yourself. But I do believe in souls being in sync, souls that mirror each other.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

  Chase Utley

  Running, Mirrors, Looks

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• I hate them!' she cried. 'It's not fair!' 'No, it isn't,' Frederick said gently. 'I can't do it all!' 'No. You can't.' After a long moment he said, 'But you can do what you can.' 'And what if that isn't enough?' Frederick held her shoulders and took a step back. He looked in her eyes. 'Enough for what?' 'For my family.' 'What more could they ask for than what you've given?

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Hate, Eye, Long

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• In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.

  Maria V. Snyder

  War, Stories, Rooms

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin

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• Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Believe, Long

  "The Best Of Me". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2011.

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• What if there is no dirt on Merjack? Oh, I can answer this one. (Omari raised his hand like he was in a classroom, then dropped it to his side.) We all die. (Omari) I just love teenage angst. By the way, chip, there are worse things in life than dying. (Nero) Like what? (Omari) Living as a slave. (Alix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Teenage, Hands, Things In Life

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.211, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Grief, Kids

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.

  Crystal Reed

  Thinking, Control Myself, People

  "Exclusive Interview: Teen Wolf's Crystal Reed". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2011.

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• Gregory,” she said, “you cannot leave me here. What if someone finds you and removes you from the house? Who will know I am here? And what if…and what if…and then what if…” He smiled, enjoying her officiousness too much to actually listen to her words. She was definitely herself again. “When this is all over,” he said, “I shall bring you a sandwich.” That stopped her short. “A sandwich? A sandwich?

  Julia Quinn

  Ifs And, House, Sandwiches

  Julia Quinn (2006). “On the way to the wedding”

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• Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

  Roald Dahl

  America, Pirate, Way

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.24, Penguin

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• You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say? Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mean, Differences, Two

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• My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can’t remember when a block of it didn’t rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can’t be repaired. What, if lost can’t be replaced. I love my burdens.

  Dennis Lehane

  Daughter, Stress, Block

  "Moonlight Mile". Book by Dennis Lehane, 2011.

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• Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.

  Tina St. John

  Jobs, Eye, Cutting

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• It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

  V. S. Pritchett

  Believe, Unsuccessful, Exciting

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.87, A&C Black

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• I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138

  James Lee Burke

  Dream, Men, Space

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• What if he wakes up before you get home and steals you blind? (Wayne) Steals what? My clothes won’t fit him and I have nothing of any value. Not unless he likes my Peter, Paul, and Mary collection anyway. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Sunshine, Clothes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.440, Macmillan

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