Quotes About Hypothetical

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

I mean, obviously when you've a lot of time on your hands, you get together and you're always always debating that team vs. that team, that player vs. that player, all these hypothetical matchups.

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

But McNamara knew more than the actual facts—he also knew the hypothetical ones. When you talked with him, you realized that he had already played out in his head the relevant details for every conceivable option and scenario.

It's a hypothetical question," she said. "Would you kill half the population today in order to save our species from extinction?

I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.

a point of arrival for existing knowledge and a point of departure for a new study and new projects: complete urbanization. The hypothesis is anticipatory. It prolongs the fundamental tendency of the present. Urban society is gestating in and through the "bureaucratic society of controlled consumption.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Passive market timing consists of inadvertent deviations from long-term targets caused by the action of market forces on the values of a portfolio's various asset classes. Whether caused by an investor's active decision or an investor's passive indifference, market-timing returns result from deviations between hypothetical target portfolio returns and actual portfolio asset class returns.

We live in a world of 'ifs.' 'What happened,' is singular; 'what might have happened,' legion.

Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one,

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.

La realidad objetiva es la construcción sintética, que trata con una hipotética universalización de multitud de realidades subjetivas.

La mente dell'uomo è contorta e in genere lo spinge a credere sempre alla peggiore delle ipotesi

Un jour, j'irai vivre en Théorie, car en Théorie, tout se passe bien.

The trouble with the what-if game was that once you began to play it, you couldn't just quit whenever you wanted. From one what-if grew another.

If, if, if. If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass every time he jumped.

I may be out of bed, but I'm in no way equipped to conduct hypothetical conversations before I've had a cup of tea.

is far easier to agree with the eminent researchers Penfield and Eccles and hypothesize that there exists a greater "organ" possessing enormous powers — which, although completely invisible to our present materialistic knowledge, certainly must exist. And it was this "organ" that John Traynor and Mason somehow activated — although, of course, quite inadvertently.

One hypothetical answer as to why Earthside groupthink has continued to be infected with the unworkable model of telepathy is that it DOES NOT work.

En adelante, de aquel pasado suyo verdadero o hipotético, él queda excluido; no puede detenerse; debe continuar hasta otra ciudad donde lo espera otro pasado suyo, o algo que quizás había sido un posible futuro y ahora es el presente de algún otro. Los futuros no realizados son sólo ramas del pasado: ramas secas.

Probably the greatest intellectual accomplishment in adolescence is the ability to think hypothetically, to engage in "if/ then" thinking. "If I blow off my math test, then I may fail the course and have to go to summer school." All of a sudden, blowing off the math test is about a whole set of consequences.