What If Quotes - Page 6

Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never predict what will happen, particularly in politics and economics. You can to some extent predict in the technological sphere - flying, space travel, but even there we missed badly on some things, like computers. No one imagined the incredible impact of computers, even though robot brains of various kinds but the idea that one day every house would have a computer in every room and that one day we'd have computers built into our clothing, nobody ever thought of that.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

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

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.

What if i fail?" ...the more profound question is, "what if i never fail?" "Stop making excuses and start managing your fear.

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

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.

So what if I can't spell Armaggedon? ... it's not the end of the world.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.

What, if as said, man is a bubble. [Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]