If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If the detective insists upon retaining his personal standards, he must now do so in conscious defiance of his society.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If Russian pupils have to take these languages, how come American students have a choice whether or not to take a language, but have to face so many exceptions??

If so, I would lean to Sir Charles' conception of the man.

If only the fucken weather wasn't so lousy!!

If and when Hino decided to tell him about his experiences, he would do so unasked.

If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.

If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.

If Af, then Af is divisible by Af and so Af, i.e., Af.

Then I replied, coldly, `` If you despise me, why don't you say so, directly ''??

If Congress wants to displace the states from areas which they have customarily occupied, let it do so knowingly and explicitly.

If people don't want to provide public education, should they be forced to do so??

If so, then it is clear that in saying the suffering was bad we are not expressing our feelings only.

If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??

If we were asked why we thought so, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

If they opted for illusion, it could only be illusion per se -- an illusion of depth, and of relief, so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects.

If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.

If so, all I can say is, it is a new Liberalism, and not the one that I have known and practised under more illustrious auspices than these, under one who was not merely the greatest Liberal but the greatest financier that this country has ever known — I mean Mr. Gladstone ... Gladstone ranks as the great financial authority of our country ... Mr. Gladstone would be 100 in December if he were alive, but, centenarian as he would be, I am inclined to think that he would make very short work of the deputation of the Cabinet that waited on him with this measure, and that they would soon find themselves on the stairs, if not in the street.

If he had only waited until they let him out he would have been all right, but he was scared and ran away.

If the French intended to form into line once the enemy position was detected, they waited too long.

If the enemy waited at the end of the ravine, the Egyptians would risk being cut down piecemeal.

If the Aborigines had really felt the land was exclusively theirs, they would not have waited more than twenty years after the colonists arrived to do something about it.

Brown has said of the incident, " If they were really interested in stopping this, do you think they would have waited that long to send us a letter?

If Ney had waited until August 20, section 3513. 31 of the Ohio Revised Code would have pertained: Ney's replacement in the November general election would be named by a district committee of the Ohio Republican party.

:" If we, as a people, had attempted to practice this principle without revelation, it is likely that we should have been led into grievous sins, and the condemnation of God would have rested upon us ; but the Church waited until the proper time came, and then the people practiced it according to the mind and will of God, making a sacrifice of their own feelings in so doing.

If Sauron had waited longer in attacking his enemies while focusing on re-establishing his power, he would have surely defeated them all in time.

" If Ney had waited until August 20, section 3513. 31 of the Ohio Revised Code would have pertained and Ney's replacement in the November general election could have been named by a district committee of the Ohio Republican party.

If the judge wanted only to kill the kid, there would be no need for him to undress as he waited in the outhouse.

If he had waited, she would have been free, but he has lost her.

If anyone shall endeavour to represent the forms of the Saints in lifeless pictures with material colours which are of no value ( for this notion is vain and introduced by the devil ), and does not rather represent their virtues as living images in himself, etc.

Apostle Paul wrote that: " If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised ; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain ... If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile ".

If thou after the knowledge hath reached thee, Wert to follow their ( vain ) desires ,- then wert thou Indeed ( clearly ) in the wrong.

If, in the progress of revolving years, I could persuade myself that my blighted destiny had been a warning to you, I should feel that I had not occupied another man's place altogether in vain.

If this being is all-wise, then his very act of creation cannot be haphazard or in vain.

If for example you heard that collecting stamps was very pleasurable, and began a stamp collection as a means towards this happiness, it would inevitably be in vain.

# The Arab historian Ibn Athir remarks in his book, Al-Kamil, that, " If we name it the Quran of ' Ajam, we have not said something in vain.

The congregation responds " Amen " to each blessing, and " Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo " (" blessed is He and blessed is His Name ") when the chazzan invokes God's name in the signature " Blessed are You, O Lord ..." If there are not six members of the minyan responding " Amen ," the chazzan's blessing is considered in vain.

If one sees Timon's parties not as libations but as vain attempts to genuinely win friends among his peers, he gains sympathy.

If not, his work was in vain.

The inscription on the memorial reads, " If I, a lowly singer, dry one tear, or soothe one humble human heart in pain, then my homely verse to God is dear, and not one stanza has been sung in vain.

If Love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment? If a Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content? Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain, Or grieve at my Fate, when I know ' tis in vain? Yet so pleasing the Pain is, so soft is the Dart, That at once it both wounds me, and Tickles my Heart.

In the program of the first " Opera Album " after the name change is written the Florentine Opera Chorus motto: " If our song has stopped one heart from aching, we have not lived in vain.

In a letter to Charles Lyell about " the foul book ", he expressed his disgust: " If the book be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain ; religion is a lie ; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice ; morality is moonshine ; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen ; and man and woman are only better beasts!

The North British Review reflected evangelical Presbyterian willingness to consider science in relation to " Reason and not to Faith " and to view natural law as directly guided by God, but warned that " If it has been revealed to man that the Almighty made him out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, it is in vain to tell a Christian that man was originally a speck of albumen, and passed through the stages of monads and monkeys, before he attained his present intellectual pre-eminence.

" It is from the first verse of Psalm 127 which reads " If the Lord builds not the house, the builders labour but in vain ".

If the idea of monarchy is a mystical one and you are not promoting it in vain, not as a ringing phrase, but with fear and respect, then this conviction obliges you to fight with fury against the Russian police-order (....) You say that autocracy is a religious idea, but the defence of this idea is a matter for God, not the Police-department.