What If Quotes - Page 8

• What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?

  Loren Eiseley

  Fire, Order, Fuel

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• What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, People, Allies

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.

  Patti Stanger

  Issues, Giving, Guy

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

  John Cleese

  Strong, Children, Years

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• WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

  Phil Harding

  Friendship, Relationship, Family

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• What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

  Anne Lamott

  People, Creative, Wake Up

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• Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.

  Adam Hills

  Army, Gay, Men

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• What if I were Romeo in black jeans?

  Michael Penn

  Jeans, Black, Ifs

  Song: No Myth Romeo In Black Jeans, Album: March

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• What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?

  Kirk Cameron

  Christ, Ifs

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• With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

  Warren Buffett

  Worry, Focus, Investing

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• What if living your life, naturally created what you wanted?

  Marshall Sylver

  Live Your Life, Wanted, Ifs

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• What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

  Danielle LaPorte

  Desire, Beacons, Ifs

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• We’ve all heard the expression, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ Well, I’ve got a good question for you: What if it’s true? Wouldn’t that be easy to do-to eat an apple a day? Here’s the problem: It’s also easy not to do.

  Jim Rohn

  Doctors, Expression, Apples

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 07, 2015

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• What if opportunity comes and you aren't prepared? If you don't prepare yourself for opportunity, one thing is certain, you won't win even when you get the chance. You must recognize the power of being prepared.

  Marshall Sylver

  Winning, Opportunity, Chance

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• I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?

  Philip Guston

  Angel, Everyday, One Day

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• 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

  Hands, Two, Rushing

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• What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, family outdoor clubs, or green gyms? What if this approach becomes the norm in every community?

  Richard Louv

  Country, Kids, Adventure

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• 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

  Lying, Should Have, Ideas

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• Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Forever, Dying, Lucky

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

  Robert Breault

  Education, Children, Animal

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• I said to a guy, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful," and he said, "Because it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Personality

  "Bill Cosby: Himself". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

  Wayne Muller

  Kindness, Healing, World

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• We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

  Mike Lupica

  Doe, One Thing, Ifs

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• What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?

  Bernie Siegel

  Jesus, Normal, Persons

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• I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, People, Tests

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