If Quotations | Page 2

What if when they called a war, no one went?

Playboy stretched his arm, patting Carlos on the back. "Well, you know what they say: If you love someone, let'em go. If they don't come back, hunt'em down and kill'em!

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

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?

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?

I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'"

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

I am always nervous about doing voice-over work. I'm always clammy and I worry, "What if my voice squeaks? What if I don't deliver it right?" Until you start saying the lines, it's always nerve-wracking, for some reason, and I've never gotten over that.

And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.

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.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

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.

I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?

I think it's very hard if you love someone to walk away from a relationship that isn't healthy.

I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?

Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like, 5 guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her…

Never drink alone, that's what they say. But you know what? If you drink you will never be alone, alright?

What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?

What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?

What if the world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, ‘How do we make people pay for music?’ What if we started asking, ‘How do we LET people pay for music?’

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

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?'

If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

They say, Keep your enemies closer. But what if you live with them?

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans?

What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do?What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

What if the only resolution you made was to love yourself more?

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

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.

I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.

If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question 'What's the potential opportunity that this is?'

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

The family of Keith Scott viewed the police video and it`s worth repeating that afterward the family made a statement through their lawyers which reads in part, "It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr. Scott is holding in his hands. When he was shot and killed, Mr. Scott`s hands were by his side and he was slowly walking backwards."

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.

I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?

It is true if you believe it to be true.

If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.

Live authentically. Live your truth. And if you love me for anything, love me because I live mine.

If only you knew all the gifts that you bring to others. You would never feel sad again.

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.

Incentivizing more clinics to incentivize the young women, to may or may not want to have an abortion to say, you know what, if we talk her into an abortion, we'll be able to sell it for 75 bucks up to 300 bucks.

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?

If I could clone myself, we’d be all right. But I can’t.

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting What if? will pop into my head.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

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?

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, he's probably LK Advani

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker...I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time.