Quotes About What-if

Nothing I know matters more Than what never happened. John Burnside, 'Hearsay

Nicio pierdere nu se simte mai acut decat pierderea a ceea ce ar fi putut sa fie. Nicio nostalgie nu doare la fel de mult ca nostalgia dupa lucrurile care n-au existat niciodata.

What hurts the most Was being so close And having so much to say And watching you walk away And never knowing What could have been And not seeing that loving you Is what I was tryin' to do

I'll always wonder what could have been with Steven Warner, but he never showed any interest outside of friendship so I never pushed it.

Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in--I don't know, say, a Quaker household--surely things would be different.

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.

I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started!

still a part of her future as well as her past. But it was stupid and pointless to think about what might have been.

I am not simply missing one child who never grew, but two of them. I always know how old they'd be. What I do not know is who I might have been, had I become their mother.

Sometimes I ask myself what I would be if Jenny were alive. And then I answered: I would also be alive.

Sometimes I ask myself what I would be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer:I would also be alive.

Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.

It's hard when you lose your best players. It's tough. I'm not going to lie. It makes you think, 'What if they didn't leave?'

I thought about choices I had made and wondered what would have happened if I had made different choices

The systems-thinking lens allows us to reclaim our intuition about whole systems and • hone our abilities to understand parts, • see interconnections, • ask "what-if " questions about possible future behaviors, and • be creative and courageous about system redesign.

We can know what was, but not what might have been.

What more can punish a man than to sit and groan as he contemplates what might have been!

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

If only I could have my time again.

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

moment of tangency a fleeting glimpse at what might have been.

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?'

Missing out on 'Monty Python' was a real blow at the time. I sometimes wonder how things would have been different if I had been invited to join 'Monty Python,' but as the saying goes, one door closes, another opens.