( If a dragon or a sea monster came along, didn't he have a red Swiss hunting knife on his belt -- ten blades and a corkscrew??

" If that didn't work, Atkins would instruct Porter to turn the offending player down in the mix.

If he didn't meet Pitman, Severin points out that Defoe, upon submitting even a draft of a novel about a castaway to his publisher, would undoubtedly have learned about Pitman's book published by his father, especially since the interesting castaway had previously lodged with them at their former premises.

" If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans ", he said.

The awards ceremony is traditionally closed with the words: " If you didn't win a prize — and especially if you did — better luck next year!

If he knew about Whitacre's embezzlement for three years, Lieber asks, why didn't Andreas fire Whitacre immediately?

If found guilty, the person was thrown to a " devourer " and didn't share in eternal life.

He also has a simple definition for talent in writing: " If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

In 2008, she told Ellen DeGeneres that " If it didn't have a drum beat, you can just forget about it!

" If I've ever had a magic moment in my life, it was popping that tape in ," said Jesperson, " I didn't even get through the first song before I thought my head was going to explode ".

If I wanted to direct, why, they'd give me a shot at it, and if it didn't come off all that well, they wouldn't be too disappointed as it was to be a very small picture.

If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to ; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

If we don't find the target, then we know it's in the block we didn't search.

If she had to look at one person with jealousy, and another with love, she didn't have to change her expression.

If they had a hit song, they didn't want to play it under comic barnyard footage.

If I didn't, I'd be making $ 7 a week being one.

Even a teacher, though, is usually justified in saying, " If you didn't want to fail the quiz, then you should have done your homework instead of skateboarding / watching TV / etc.

If no response came from a particular address, the computer marked it dead and didn't bother polling it later.

Columbia studio executive John Veich remembered, " If we knew it was going to cost that much, we wouldn't have greenlighted it because we didn't have the money.

If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

While his family didn't have much money, he said that he never felt poor because ," If you don't have something, you don't miss it.

While also being included in " and Bioshock 2 " with the songs of " If I didn't care " and " The Best Things in Life are Free " while Bioshock 2 included " We Three ( My Echo, My Shadow and Me )"-Ink Spots and " I'm Making Believe "-The Ink Spots ; Ella Fitzgerald ," Memories of You "-The Ink Spots, " Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat "-The Ink Spots, while others were included in " LA Noire " on the radio stations.

If it couldn't be counted, in other words, it didn't count.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

If internal responsibility suggests acceptance of the socialist ideal of equality, then external responsibility implies adherence to principles of ideological supranationalism.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

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 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.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

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 they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

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

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 the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

`` If they are here, then surely I have the right to be here '', Rousseau said.

If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.