He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

`` If once they become inattentive to the public affairs '', Jefferson said, `` you and I, and Congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves ''.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

If the President of the United States really feels he won himself a `` lousy job '', then heaven help us all.

If we go all gooey over this newest Castro ( until he proves he isn't ) we've got rocks in our heads.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If we grasp this orientation as a key, our national conduct in all of the events here mentioned becomes intelligible.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

If Joe doesn't show up, we'll all be back here at 0600 hours.

If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.

If the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.

If you have a 6- to 8-inch drain pipe, you may easily wash out all the debris when the grate is out.

If I could make myself feel the same way

If he attaches little importance to personal liberty, why not make this known to the world??

If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

`` If you can firmly make the good knight sure to pleasure our Corporation '', Sturley wrote, `` besides that ordinary allowance for your diet you shall have 20 for recompence ''.

If he becomes chancellor, Dr. Erhart would make few changes.

If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 per annum, then somebody is going to hang, it follows that the more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson.

If we cluster together, the redcoats can make an advantage out of it, but there's not a blessed thing they can do with two or three of us except chase us, and we can outrun them ''.

`` If you will promise to make it weak ''.

If these services are to be maintained, the New York Central must have the revenues to make them possible ''.

If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.

If you can't see your way clear to have summer cooling included when building, by all means make provision for its easy adding later.

If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

If you are thinking of giving him a berth, be sure to make it a wide one ''.

If you are not well acquainted with the area in which you wish to locate, or if you are not sure that you and your family will like and make a success of farming, usually you would do better to rent a place for a year or two before you buy.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

If tests are to be resumed, the argument went, it is vital that the U. S. make plain that the onus belongs to the Soviet Union.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

If possible, he should make an appointment in order that all persons involved may be present.

I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.

If we cannot make explicit choices, how do we know that our set exists?

If it were square, would you make it round?

Naamani Tarkow has written: " If one is to make sweeping statements, one may say that, save Magna Carta ( more truly, its implications ), the Act of Settlement is probably the most significant statute in English history ".