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

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

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

If we look at recent art we find it preoccupied with form.

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If we want respect from ourselves or others, we will have to earn it.

If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally??

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.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

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 our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

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

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 art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

If he's going to the St. Louis convention as a delegate we ought to know it.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins.

If a governor of senatorial rank himself felt these pressures, one can imagine the difficulties faced by a mere praeses.

The well-known historian of physics, C. P. Snow, says about him, " If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom.

If FLARE provided the XM-291 gun project with the sufficient radiative heat to ignite the propellant to achieve a muzzle energy of 17 MJ one could only imagine the possibilities with a fully developed FLARE plasma igniter.

If confirmed, this would imply special relativity is an approximation to a more general theory, but since the relevant comparison would ( by definition ) be outside the observable universe, it is difficult to imagine ( much less construct ) experiments to test this hypothesis.

If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality.

* If asked to imagine the graph of the relationship y = ax < sup > 2 </ sup >, one typically visualizes a range of values of x, but only one value of a.

If we imagine the beam is made of photons, then every second numerous photons strike the surface and are absorbed.

An intrinsic definition of the Gaussian curvature at a point P is the following: imagine an ant which is tied to P with a short thread of length r. She runs around P while the thread is completely stretched and measures the length C ( r ) of one complete trip around P. If the surface were flat, she would find C ( r ) = 2πr.

If someone is " fishing " for information, we do not imagine that the person is anywhere near the ocean ; rather, we transpose elements of the action of fishing ( waiting, hoping to catch something that cannot be seen, probing ) into a new domain ( a conversation ).

If the Gospel of Thomas were the earliest, we would have to imagine that each of the evangelists or the traditions behind them expanded the parable in different directions and then that in the process of transmission the text was trimmed back to the form it has in the Syriac Gospels.

Another objection is the " conscientious Nazi " — imagine a Nazi who wants to kill all Jews, and even says " If I found out I was Jewish I'd kill myself ".

When the series launched in early 1979, the press advertising used the line " If you think prison is hell for a man, imagine what it's like for a woman .".

Rae responded that " Sri Lanka is afraid of dialogue, afraid of discussion, afraid of engagement ... If this is how they treat me, imagine how they treat people who can't speak out.

If one wishes, one might imagine some atomic clock to be the de facto system clock.

If we let Him — for we can prevent Him, if we choose — He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly ( though, of course, on a smaller scale ) His own boundless power and delight and goodness.

If we imagine the light confined to a two-dimensional plane, the light from the flash spreads out in a circle after the event E occurs, and if we graph the growing circle with the vertical axis of the graph representing time, the result is a cone, known as the future light cone.

Another of Searle's fellow prisoners later recounted, " If you can imagine something that weighs six stone or so, is on the point of death and has no qualities of the human condition that aren ’ t revolting, calmly lying there with a pencil and a scrap of paper, drawing, you have some idea of the difference of temperament that this man had from the ordinary human being.

If the covered eyes did not strain, he said, they would see " a field so black that it is impossible to remember, imagine, or see anything blacker ", since light was excluded by the palms.

Examples might include: ( 1 ) Rather than talking about the client's critical parent, a Gestalt therapist might ask the client to imagine the parent is present, or that the therapist is the parent, and talk to that parent directly ; ( 2 ) If a client is struggling with how to be assertive, a Gestalt therapist could either ( a ) have the client say some assertive things to the therapist or members of a therapy group, or ( b ) give a talk about how one should never be assertive ; ( 3 ) A Gestalt therapist might notice something about the non-verbal behavior or tone of voice of the client ; then the therapist might have the client exaggerate the non-verbal behavior and pay attention to that experience ; ( 4 ) A Gestalt therapist might work with the breathing or posture of the client, and direct awareness to changes that might happen when the client talks about different content.

If we had other sense organs altogether, like infra-red detectors or echo-location devices, we can barely imagine how things would appear to us.

If you could imagine any one obtaining this power of becoming invisible, and never doing any wrong or touching what was another's, he would be thought by the lookers-on to be a most wretched idiot, although they would praise him to one another's faces, and keep up appearances with one another from a fear that they too might suffer injustice.

If we were to imagine a universe that only contains a bucket, on Newton's account, this bucket could be set to spin relative to absolute space, and the water it contained would form the characteristic concave surface.

If one were to imagine that the figure represents snow, and that the polygons are its ( transparent ) ice crystallites, an impinging ray is partially reflected ( a few percent ) by the first particle, enters in it, is again reflected by the interface with the second particle, enters in it, impinges on the third, and so on, generating a series of " primary " scattered rays in random directions, which, in turn, through the same mechanism, generate a large number of " secondary " scattered rays, which generate " tertiary " rays ... All these rays walk through the snow crystallytes, which do not absorb light, until they arrive at the surface and exit in random directions.

If one can imagine a combination, in almost equal parts, of Walter Scott, William Beckford, Dumas père, and Charles Dickens, together with a strong hint of Hungarian patriotism, one may perhaps form a fair idea of the character of the work of this great Hungarian romancer.