Quotes by What If Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state? Robert Nozick what-ifstrongrights What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians? Robert Orben what-ifearthreligion What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives. Robin Wall Kimmerer what-ifvoiceteacher What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things? Robin McKinley what-iftasksuse ...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor? Robin McKinley oysterswhat-ifocean What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? Rollo May what-ifimaginationart I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire. Ron Atkinson what-ifgoalfire The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner. Ronald Ross mosquitoeswhat-ifgrowing Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided. Ron Paul what-ifdoubtorder The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately. Russell Brand what-ifreturnself 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 what-ifwarpeople What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up? Ruth Ozeki what-ifwake-updream Each time I take a role, I'm always nervous about it at the beginning and I'm always afraid what if that, what if this. Every time I take a role and I'm somewhat terrified at the beginning and I get into it and I start working, that's a big win for me. So, really it is stepping forward in the face of whatever fears that I've created for myself and going forward anyway and those are always big moments for me. Ryan Reynolds what-ifroleswinning Henry Blodget says, "It is not clear what, if any, power and influence [Steven Lerner] currently wields. His main message - that Wall Street won the financial crisis, that inequality in this country is hitting record levels, and that there appears to be no other way to stop the trend - will almost certainly resonate." Rush Limbaugh what-ifwallcountry The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces. Rush Limbaugh what-ifcarcare What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body? Samuel Laman Blanchard negatives-makewhat-iftwo Our actual lives, including our values, our social relations, our self-conceptions, and many of our concepts, are pervasively shaped both by the knowledge and by the fact that we will someday die - that we are subject to extreme temporal scarcity. There is no reason to think that, if we were immortal, the same things would continue to matter to us. We have little or no idea what, if anything, would matter to immortal beings, or even how such beings would think of themselves. Samuel Scheffler somedaywhat-ifthinking What if you just did it your own way? No rules, no right or wrong, just what you think is beautiful? Sandra Magsamen what-ifbeautifulthinking And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all? Samuel Taylor Coleridge what-ifintellectualsoul So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? Sara Gruen what-ifthreerunning«1617181920212223242526»
