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What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?


Brandon Sanderson

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ZAMAN ALI You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL Maybe if Judas can be 'rehabilitated,' then perhaps some of those old issues could be set aside.
MARVIN MEYER For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The government won't be able to meet its 5.3 percent growth target. We would be happy if we could du...
JOSE VISTAN If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what h...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't h...
BRANDON SANDERSON A wish is the link between what is and what could be. It is a vine woven into a bridge...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
SALLY GARDNER What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve,...
MARY HARRIS JONES What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?
LAUREN KATE The outlook could revert to stable if substantial and tangible progress is achieved in maintaining t...
AGOST BENARD If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were wh...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The city asked us if we could voluntarily show we could set aside 10 percent of the homes.
DAVE WAMSLEY Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try...
BRANDON SANDERSON Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimi...
BRANDON SANDERSON Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
MAX BROOKS That taught us how to block a sword with two knives. But what if an ax man's coming at me?"
Gi...
JOHN FLANAGAN I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
DAVID WARNER Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though...
BRANDON SANDERSON Your life could be different, if you would decide that it will.
JACEY R. FOLEY If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be could reserach, now would it?
ALBERT EINSTEIN To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful t...
BRANDON SANDERSON I don't believe that this budget, even if it could be achieved - and I don't think it can be achieve...
BILL FRENZEL If I could explain that to you, I'd be the greatest sports consultant in history. No one knows what ...
LARRY CONLEY Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.
EDAN LEPUCKI You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We made some progress and agreed to arrive at a conclusion quickly. We could set a direction to our ...
FUKUSHIRO NUKAGA If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled a...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI What If dead is another riddle??
Another matrix?
DEYTH BANGER We could have been the greatest love story ever told.

If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.
TIM BARRETT Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he poten...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be...
JIMMY JOHNSON What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to...
NIDO QUBEIN If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human righ...
JOHN DOOLITTLE Together, they were greater than either them could possibly be apart. Together, she prayed, they wer...
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JESSAMYN WEST It's unfortunate that before we even arrived at the meeting place yesterday, the students who called...
DOUG BAILEY The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of it...
RONALD SEGAL I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already...
JIMMY PAGE Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientifi...
POLLY TOYNBEE How could it be better than this? I think it should move here permanently.
AL MICHAELS Course superintendent Brandon Nichols has the course in as good a shape as it could be,
ALEX ADAMS The law is not something holy, son. It's just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be...
BRANDON SANDERSON If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Listening is one of the finest ways to demonstrate our love for another human being. How many marria...
SUSAN C. YOUNG People tend to be able to accept change for a short amount of time. If the strike were to progress l...
CASEY JONES Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Defi...
GORDON RAMSAY Don't be angry at what you can't have. Be angry about what you could have had, but you were too naiv...
JOHN ROSE But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality itself was a stage set that could be dis...
J.G. BALLARD Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To...
FRANCESCO PETRARCH I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if h...
HAMPTON SIDES Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
WOODY ALLEN But what if you're wrong?
What if there's more?
What if there's hope you never dreamed of ...
NICHOLE NORDEMAN Alcatraz actually knows a person named Brandon Sanderson. That man, however, is a fantasy writer and...
BRANDON SANDERSON business clarity on what new services could be introduced and how it could be introduced.
MARK MCLAUGHLIN With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of the...
LEO TOLSTOY What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you cou...
RUFI THORPE Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a m...
ANDREW HODGES For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, an...
THICH NHAT HANH You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But ...
ALAN FURST What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be
DOUGLAS JERROLD What would women do if they could not cry? What poor, defenseless creatures they would be
DOUGLAS JERROLD Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT Simple things often make great difference
SOTONYE ANGA If everyone knew they made a difference, what a difference we could make.
DONNA M THOMAS A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
DAKOTA JOHNSON Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If you get wounded you could get healed, if your feelings were damaged in time it will be fixed, but...
JACK JOSEPH CHAHWAN The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of wha...
J.K. ROWLING By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the ...
JANE JACOBS What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
E. LOCKHART It should be possible at Hong Kong to set a deadline of 2010, ... There is an enormous amount at sta...
TONY BLAIR They were working with similar ideas and similar notions about Denver and what architecture in Denve...
DAN KOHL ...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.
IAN MCEWAN One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibil...
ROBERT BUETTNER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you start to appreciate and be aware of what is intrinsically good, you start to be happy with ...
MAICHEE SUMMER Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "W...
SHANNON L. ALDER To be set aside is to be rejected.To be set apart is to be given an assignment that requires prepara...
LYSA TERKEURST If it were just a case of dealing with the effects of the previous hurricane, the U.S. (economy) cou...
KATSUHIKO KODAMA At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot b...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The focus is, what do we want to design. What needs to be saved, what could be an adaptive re-use of...
JEFF DANNER Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in dev...
CALVIN COOLIDGE You know, if John Kerry could do what I do, he'd be president,
BRIAN SCHWEITZER I asked myself over and over again what more information could be gained, what and who could be save...
RAFI EITAN Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to ...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma...
TIMOTHY NOAH We need to be open-minded about what the center could be, and we need to understand what it can't be...
CURT SMITH You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
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BRANDON SANDERSON But you know what I think? I think you're looking for excuses to not let go. This ting, it's who you...
BRANDON SANDERSON Don’t tell anyone I said it?"
I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a...
BRANDON SANDERSON To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.
BRANDON SANDERSON Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.”
He ...
BRANDON SANDERSON What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been ...
BRANDON SANDERSON That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.
BRANDON SANDERSON I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back. He stumbled beneath th...
BRANDON SANDERSON This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
BRANDON SANDERSON Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
"Where...
BRANDON SANDERSON Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
BRANDON SANDERSON Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
BRANDON SANDERSON And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has...
BRANDON SANDERSON Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses...
BRANDON SANDERSON Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand ...
BRANDON SANDERSON An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.
BRANDON SANDERSON I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to lo...
BRANDON SANDERSON In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our ex...
BRANDON SANDERSON If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the de...
BRANDON SANDERSON Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect,...
BRANDON SANDERSON There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." BRANDON SANDERSON Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm."

"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it...
BRANDON SANDERSON ...Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the ...
BRANDON SANDERSON I told him that you were simply showing me the ways of court. Kind of like an…older brother.” BRANDON SANDERSON We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ...
BRANDON SANDERSON The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The...
BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though...
BRANDON SANDERSON Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo...
BRANDON SANDERSON I died down at that chasm. Now you’ve got my vengeful spirit to deal with.
BRANDON SANDERSON We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you wer...
BRANDON SANDERSON She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the ...
BRANDON SANDERSON In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusi...
BRANDON SANDERSON Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I'...
BRANDON SANDERSON I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open.
BRANDON SANDERSON XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest ...
BRANDON SANDERSON Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.
BRANDON SANDERSON On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world.
BRANDON SANDERSON Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours."
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