A Quotes
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“And if I don’t want you to? (Ravyn) You know, you’d look really weird in a dress and high heels. (Susan) What’s that supposed to mean? (Ravyn) It means you’re not my mother. Now stop arguing and help me find my shoes. (Susan)”
“And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.”
Source: Poems of George Meredith
“And if I end up with blood on my hands, well I know, that you'll understand, 'cause I fight like a girl.”
“And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.”
“And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.”
Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated
“and if I ever touched a life i hope that life knows/that i know that touching was and still is and will always/be the true/revolution.”
Source: The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
“And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.”
Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel
“And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.”
“And if I forget how many times I have been here,
and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I don't want my parents or brother knowing, Will's like, 'We'll deal with it.' He's never said, 'I'll fix it up.' He just says, 'You're not up to going back to uni to finish your Honours this year? Big deal. There's next year. We'll deal with it.'" She nods. "That's what he does well.”
“And if I give in? Will you throw me away like every other woman?”
Source: Once You're Mine
“And if I grab onto that light, that is how I will find you.”
Source: Coincident
“And if I had a camera
Showing all the light we give
And showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friends”
“And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.”
“And if I had even a nanometer of extra cleavage for every time someone stroked my hair without asking, I’d be Cardi fucking B by now. Needless to say, shit got weird.”
Source: The Subtle Cause
“And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.”
Source: Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)
“And if i had to listen to one more minute of my demon's increasingly pathetic and creepy attempts to get a piece of rebound faery ass, i was going to cut a bitch.”
Source: Green-Eyed Demon
“And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.”
“And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.”
“And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.”
“And if I have the gift of prophesy, all-wisdom and great faith but without love, I am nothing.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.”
Source: Wither
“and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees) then let love freeze me out. (from i must become a menace to my enemies)”
Source: Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
“And if I kiss you back, it’ll be because we want to convince an audience, not because there would be a much bigger push toward interspecies marriage if humans only knew what amazing kissers Wrasa are.”
Source: Shifting Nature
“And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.”
“And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.”
“And if I look at my icebox, there's no way I'm sitting there looking like Gandhi. I mean, I don't have crickets in there and little green rice. No, I mean it's a pretty liberal icebox. It's all in there.”
“And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.”
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.
A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things—whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous.”
“And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.”
“And if I may, call your mom, everybody. I've told this [to], like, a billion people, or so. Call your mom, call your dad. If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call 'em. Don't text. Don't email. Call them on the phone. Tell 'em you love 'em, and thank them, and listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you, Mom and Dad.”
“And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.”
“And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why-- which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.”
Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“And if I said "because I'm a witch," they'd think I was crazy.'
'That's exactly right,' she confirmed.
'Because everybody knows witches aren't real.'
She nodded. 'Yes.'
'Except they really are real.'
She continued nodding. 'Mm-hmm.'
'But you also told me Santa and the tooth fairy were real.'
'Those were lies,' she said. 'But they're lies every parent tells their children. So they're not really lies so much as a script.'
'I slept with teeth under my pillow, so it seems like a lie to me.”
Source: Toil & Trouble
“And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not be here together in forty years, laughing at a faded photo of you impersonating a lion, it having withered well, you less so, as we stand fabulously old, in a city that understands what spirit it takes to be old, to be beautiful, to be much looked at, to be itself, to be never quite caught, to have a past, to be content, to have seen much, to have remained, to have continued...”
“And if I see you step foot on my property again, I’ll do more than make a phone call,” he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.”
Source: Backlash
“And if I seem a little strange
Well, that's because I am”
“And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.”
“And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.”
“And if I should live to be
The last leaf upon the tree
In the spring,
Let them smile, as I do now,
At the old forsaken bough
Where I cling.”
“And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the summer and I hear the bees buzzing and for a moment I truly am Alice in Wonderland, do you have the heart to tell me I am not?”
Source: Peter and Alice
“And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or because about me all goes really silent, from time to time, whereas for the righteous the tumult of the world never stops.”
Source: Molloy
“And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say 'Yonder is...zer castle' a volf would be bound to howl mournfully. In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.”
Source: The Truth: Stage Adaptation
“And if I’ve learned anything about the way money works, it’s that it magnetized toward those born with it, leaving those who need it most without.”
“And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.”
“And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.”
Source: White Cat
“And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's all we did. Condemn. And march. But not often enough.”
Source: The Truth About Love
“And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr.’s head off and sh-t down his neck.”