297 Quotes About What-if

  • Author Margaret Atwood
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    When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.

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

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  • Author Sherman Alexie
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    What if someone picks on me?" I asked Then I'll pick on them". What if someone picks my nose?" I asked. The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

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  • Author Woody Allen
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    But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

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  • Author Andrew Bird
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    I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'"

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  • Author Augusten Burroughs
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    It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

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