What If Quotes (page 12)

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• doubt
• great
• death

In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead. Douglas Adams

• change
• little
• heart

persuading himself that he was a mostconscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart a little more carefully, he would have found he could not resist. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanchand most magnanimous virtues! Charles Dickens

• dream
• giving
• true

The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things, To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold. Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? Padraic Pearse

• end
• justifies
• what is the meaning

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. Ursula K. Le Guin

• question
• leaving
• understanding

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

• grandfather
• you me
• back

Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that? Stephen King

• fear
• study
• age

A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!? Stephen Colbert

• one day
• hard
• hard day

Marilla, what if I fail!''You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla. L. M. Montgomery

• warning
• time
• god

You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today. Billy Graham

• faith
• imagination
• life

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? Max Lucado

• god
• faith
• real

But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference. Jean Baudrillard

• something
• spider
• spiders

And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort Fyodor Dostoevsky

• best
• hope
• earth

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? Sarah Vowell

• hurt
• makes
• your child

Your child is hurt. How quickly can you make it better? What if you can't? Jodi Picoult

• it is what it is
• discovered
• discovers

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