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 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, 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.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

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 you can't think of a thing to do, try something -- anything.

If you have a year-round, full-time job you can't expect to grow much more than your family uses -- unless other members of the family do a good deal of the work or you hire help.

If you can't tell, get help from your county agricultural agent or other local specialist.

If they can't chalk up big business here then let's stop this noise about how hip we are, and stick to our community singing,

If we can't raise the capital, we're through.

If the heuristic can't find the correct setting, the variable is assigned randomly.

If the XML document type declaration includes any SYSTEM identifier for the external subset, it can't be safely processed as standalone: the URI should be retrieved, otherwise there may be unknown named character entities whose definition may be needed to correctly parse the effective XML syntax in the internal subset or in the document body ( the XML syntax parsing is normally performed after the substitution of all named entities, excluding the five entities that are predefined in XML and that are implicitly substituted after parsing the XML document into lexical tokens ).

If he isn't any good, why can't you say so?

If the reasons are not good, the man can't throw his son out.

" If you are in a tournament, you have to think of yourself — you can't think of your wife or children — only about yourself.

He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.

He also is skeptical of the film industry going digital, saying, " If it actually gets to the place where you can't show 35 mm film in theatres anymore and everything is digital projection, I won't even make it to 60.

If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer.

Kung dî mádaán sa santong dasalan, daanin sa santong paspasan. If you can't get it through holy prayer, get it through blessed force.

" If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all ".

Only much later in the story is the secret revealed, when Malik is hypnotized by Hagbard Celine to recall suppressed memories of his first-grade teacher conditioning his class to ignore the fnords: " If you don't see the fnord it can't eat you, don't see the fnord, don't see the fnord ..."

Ayn Rand is mentioned by name a few times in Illuminatus !, and her novel is alluded to by Hagbard who says, " If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?

If we increase the number of times we duplicate each bit to four, we can detect all two-bit errors but can't correct them ( the votes " tie "); at five, we can correct all two-bit errors, but not all three-bit errors.

Johnson, Tunis and Reeves have never publicly discussed their time with Eastwood, while Fisher said of their relationship " If the other person is not willing to grow and work on it, you can't do it by yourself.

If the negative forms can't, don't, won't, etc.

" You can't just stop a train ," he said, " If it misses its mark, it takes blocks and blocks to stop it and back up.

If a unicyclist is ( far ) off balance they can't move their centre of gravity to the other side of the wheel ( the base of which is the fulcrum ) without pushing off a wall ( or similar )— so in order not to fall over, they must turn the wheel ( with their lower body ) and move it ( by pedalling ) underneath their centre of gravity.