Quotes & Sayings About The What Ifs

What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify. — Wally Olins

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music? — Confucius

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul? — Walt Whitman

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say? — John Hagee

If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it. — Neale Donald Walsch

fear actually relies on faith...it's simply faith in the wrong things. Fear is placing you faith in "what ifs" rather in than in "God is — Craig Groeschel

Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much. — Karin Slaughter

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality. — Andy Stanley

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions. — Jim Thompson

We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination. — Christopher

I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will. — Coco Rocha

We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters. — Dave Grohl

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing. — Katharine Whitehorn

Only with the death it comes what's new, if the germen doesn't die, the plant will not be born. — Samael Aun Weor

The "what ifs" and "should haves" will eat your brain. — John O' Callaghan

The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life. — Eckhart Tolle

Just be careful of the what-ifs, she warns. They'll tumble in your head like laundry that won't dry. — Rodney Ross

If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out. — Matt Bomer

It's my brain. I know exactly what I have to do, but if I'm not using my brain, I'm not doing the things my coach is telling me. — Dinara Safina

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do? — Gloria Estefan

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant. — Neil Gaiman

If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview, frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview. — Adam Schiff

You're a fucking idiot, Carter. That girl has been in love with you since the moment she saw you. You were her childhood love. You were her fucking god. She might've wiped your asshole if you asked her to. Chicks don't move on from the same kind of love she had for you. They might live with it, they might learn to love other guys, but they don't move on. Inside, the what-ifs consume them. — R.J. Lewis

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. — Joseph Campbell

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking. — Jenny Han

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is. — Robin Trower

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not. — Dorotheus Of Gaza

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present. — Richard Dawkins

Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind. — Emma Stone

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do. — Charles Kingsley

What ifs" are the doorways into new adventures. "Why nots" are the doorknobs. We turn knobs and tug at doors until we find the one that opens for us. The Maker will leave that one unlocked and when we get to the other side, the light will be on and He'll be waiting with all the resources and help we need to fulfill His best desires for us. — Kevin E. Beasley

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond? — Roland Barthes

The more you get, the better you become' and therefore over the years you become more experienced and you learn how to deal with it. You know what can go wrong, and you also learn how to react if things go wrong. — Jill Douglas

If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination. — Oleta Adams

I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if ... " and it blossoms into a whole novel. — Jodi Picoult

Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart. — Jenny B. Jones

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it. — Adyashanti

These people were smiling because they were where they wanted to be. They understood that life is too short for what-ifs and complications. Life, they found, can be as simple as reading the wind. — Brad Herzog

The true measure
of your character
is what you would
do if you were sure
no one would ever
find out. — John C. Maxwell

If we can't express what we know in the form of numbers, we really don't know much about it. — Lord Kelvin

And the What Ifs are the worst. — Susane Colasanti

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream
of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete
lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs, — Glenn Kurtz

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? — Aaron Swartz

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe? — Charles Jencks

If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is. — Eric Bana

If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know. — Bill Cosby

If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God? Can't I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself. — Jeffrey Dahmer

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product. — Jonathan Zittrain

What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist. — Stephen Hawking

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — Seneca The Younger

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? — Oscar Wilde

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough. — Jimmy Connors

If you inquire into the hurt, you'll know what you're experiencing is love. — Duncan Trussell

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength. — Oswald Chambers

Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension.
It's a voyage into the archives of the human imagination.
A passport to all what ifs. — Natasha Tsakos

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs. — Elin Hilderbrand

I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point? — Shelby Lynne

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right? — Joe Scarborough

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else? — Tennessee Williams

There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his. — Rachel Vincent

Story to me is life. It's purpose. We as humans have an the opportunity and obligation to live the most truthful story ever told, unfortunately so few ever live truthfully. They don't follow their dreams and live lives filled with regrets and "what ifs". I make it my purpose to pursue the dreams and life that I want. It's very hard, but at the end of the day, when people read the story of my life, they will say, "He was true to himself". — Aaron Denius Garcia

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing — Arsene Wenger

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same. — Bruno Mars

If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree. — Warren Jeffs

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?" — Kristen Stewart

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Sometimes people walk out of your life never to return, and all you have left are bitter memories and what ifs. And though you try to move on and forget them, they become regrets that cut deeper than the sharpest knife, slashing you over and over again. — Mia Asher

What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh? — Donald Glover

If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand. — Doris Lessing

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time! — Charles M. Schulz

With Bruford, the album was One Of A Kind. All-instrumental, it possessed the kind of focused vision that allowed for no ifs or buts. With the unnerving confidence of youth, it had This Is What We Do And This Is How We Do It stamped all over it. — Bill Bruford

Things will come to you when the time is right and I say just go for it. If you love what you want to do, just keep on going. — Bailee Madison

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is. — Danielle LaPorte

The Peacemaker, Ken Sande suggests that a biblically based request for forgiveness will involve practicing the Seven A's:
(1) Addressing everyone involved;
(2) Avoiding all ifs, buts, and maybes;
(3) Admitting your own sin specifically;
(4) Acknowledging sorrow for the way your sin has offended God and hurt the other person;
(5) Accepting the fact there may be consequences because of your sin and being willing to accept what those consequences may be as part of the Romans 8:28 process;
(6) Altering your sinful behavior to godly behavior and thinking; and
(7) Asking specifically for forgiveness from everyone who has been hurt by your sin; — Ken Sande

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation. — Bruno Bettelheim

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not — Passenger

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They just change. Their body changes. Their abilities - the things they do that make them who they are - leave, sometimes temporarily, sometimes forever. Every day they wake up with that big what if?
And nothing is scarier than a life filled with what ifs - living by day without predictability and control. Some people end up losing feeling. Some have uncontrollable spasms. Some can't function. Some end up blind or in a wheelchair. Some end up bedridden and paralyzed.
It's hard to know who "some people" will be. — Lindsey Leavitt

If you don't get excited about the gospel, you've never really grasped what it's telling you. — Derek Prince

You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars. — Sally Gardner

The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts. — Dean Potter

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves. — Kevin Cashman

The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if. — Bryce Dallas Howard

You can't really make the decision for the coaches. I don't know what's going to happen. If I knew, then I would tell you, but I don't. — Ron Dayne

If Jesus were playing the game, I don't know what he'd do. — Lisa Whelchel

Self-will means believing that you alone have all the answers. Letting go of self-will means becoming willing to hold still, be open, and wait for guidance for yourself. It means learning to let go of fear (all of the "what ifs") and despair (all of the "if onlys") and replacing them with positive thoughts and statements about your life. — Robin Norwood

That's life, little one - lots of little maybes and what ifs all lined up in a row. And if you put your mind to following some of them that never came about, you'll get lost and not find your way back to the way it really is. — Mindy McGinnis

...There are no 'what ifs.' You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you've got or cut her loose. — Michele L. Rivera

If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?! — Deepak Chopra

I wish I could have fought him for you," he said abruptly, looking back at me. His blue eyes were dark and earnest.
I smiled at him, touched.
"It wasn't your fight, it was mine. But you won it anyway." I reached out a hand, and he squeezed it.
"Aye, but that's not what I meant. If I'd fought him man to man and won, ye'd not need to feel any regret over it." He hesitated. "If ever - "
"There aren't any more ifs," I said firmly. "I thought of every one of them yesterday, and here I still am."
"Thank God," he said, smiling, "and God help you." Then he added, "Though I'll never understand why."
I put my arms around his waist and held on as the horse slithered down the last steep slope.
"Because," I said, "I bloody well can't do without you, Jamie Fraser, and that's all about it. — Diana Gabaldon

That's the thing about 'what ifs'; they don't matter. They don't change anything. All they do is make it unable for you to heal. — Lindy Zart

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better. — Seth Godin

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard. — Kwame Kilpatrick

There's no telling what the score will be if this one goes in — George Hamilton

If I dwell on what I don't want, then I will get more of it. I affirm only the good in Life. — Louise Hay

I'm not interested in waiting around and risking the who-knows and the what-ifs and the huge regrets. I want to feel all of it ... — Tahereh Mafi

The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been. — James Emery White

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts. — Bill Gothard

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership. — Marcus Buckingham

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present. — Mark Twain