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 we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If any of us miss, they can pick up the pieces.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

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 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 they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.

If, the editors sometimes, dozed and printed pretentious, New, York-mind, dross, they, also printed, Malraux,, Silone,, Chiaromonte,, Gide, Bellow,, Robert Lowell, Francis Fergusson, Mary McCarthy, Delmore Schwartz, Mailer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Eleanor Clark,, and a host of, other good writers.

`` 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 they give him advice when he asks it, or if they perform specified duties under his direction, the nature of the U. N. will not of necessity change.

If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.