Quotes by category:What If

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

Bob Saget

what-if ifs enemy

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.

Bob Weir

what-if glasses children

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

Brad Pitt

what-if selfish thinking

What if all possible

Brenda Shaughnessy

what-if pain grief

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Brendan Fraser

juliet what-if tests

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

Brian Pinkerton

zombie what-if ideas

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

Bruce Springsteen

things-you-love what-if reality

We are civilized animals, right? Then why do we continue to slaughter for sport? What if you were a Chicken, how would you feel? I grew up in a Chicken Coop and I was not a Chicken at first, until I was faced with your World!

Buckethead

what-if animal sports

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

what-if moon thinking

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

what-if running people

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

Candace Bushnell

princess planets what-if

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

Carl Jung

what-if kindness enemy

What if they gave a war and nobody came?

Carl Sandburg

international-peace what-if war

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Carl Sandburg

what-if forever war

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

what-if dying forever

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

Carrie Fisher

what-if guy worry

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

Cassandra Clare

what-if ifs

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

Cassandra Clare

what-if heart hands

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

Cassandra Clare

forgiven what-if believe

So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

what-if stronger awful