A Quotes
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“And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.”
Source: Every Day
“And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946
“And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.”
“And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?”
“And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.”
Source: The Prophet
“And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.”
“And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.”
“And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.”
“And if poetry is a bond between
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph.”
Source: The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990
“And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.”
“And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.”
Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.”
“And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
Just leave me to despair
Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die
I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye
The love we knew, ain't worth another try”
“And if she didn't know already that she liked that stupid offing Asian kid, she knew it now”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“And if she doesn't--" "Like all of you, she's a deniable asset, agent. This isn't the Red Cross,”
Source: Black Widow #6
“And if she fell, he'd fall with her.”
Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4
“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.”
Source: The Magician's Land
“and if she were the devil, he’d turn his back on god.”
Source: Bitter Crown of Thistle
“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”
“And if society cared more about rehabilitation than throwing stones, maybe we'd create an environment that encouraged people to be kinder.”
Source: The Infinity Courts
“And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.”
“And if someone could bring me an affectionate cat while we’re waiting, I would be obliged,” I say, mostly to amuse myself. “I shall settle for a dog.”
Source: To Kill a Prince
“And if someone doesn’t believe in any afterlife?” I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. “Then that’s what they experience.”
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
“And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it's obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn't do.”
Source: Czas pogardy
“And if someone isn't making me feel like the best version of myself, I should move on and find someone who will!”
Source: Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me
“And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But given the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] had the help, nonetheless she knew how to use it. And she used it very effectively.”
“And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.”
“And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.”
“And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?”
Source: The world of Gwendolyn Brooks
“And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.”
“And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.”
“And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?" "The Foresail?" "Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called..." ..."The Next Sail, Sir?" "Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler.”
Source: Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber
“And if that isnt the truth, it would be a lie.”
“And if that person loves me, he should love my God too.”
“And, if that’s not enough, the fellow who murdered her has the impudence, the colossal impudence, to attach himself to me as my secretary. My secretary, if you please! I’m tired of secretaries, I won’t have any more secretaries. Either they’re concealed murderers or else they’re drunken brawlers. Have you seen Pagett’s black eye? But of course you have. How can I go about with a secretary like that? And his face is such a nasty shade of yellow too—just the colour that doesn’t go with a black eye. I’ve done with secretaries—unless I have a girl. A nice girl, with liquid eyes, who’ll hold my hand when I’m feeling cross.”
“And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.”
“And if the Americans could bomb a hospital in Serbia or a civilian housing estate in Baghdad, who were the hypocritical West to object when the Israeli army slaughtered the innocents of Lebanon and Gaza in identical ways?
This, then, is another theme of this book; the ‘normalisation’ of this latest warfare, which deletes the protection of civilians enshrined in international law in favour of a new and cruel morality:”
Source: Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
“And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do the scene anyway, and that's part of the fun.”
“And if the bad news is that we are all unclean, the good news is that there is one gospel to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Source: Curious Faith
“And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded - period.”
“And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?”
Source: Whitman: The Mystic Poets
“And if the City falls and one survives
he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile
he shall be the City”
“And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.”
“And if the day I die they ask me just how heaven was, I'll be glad I spent it with you.”
“And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“And if the guilt didn’t kill you—the regret would eat you alive.”
Source: Haunted Waters
“And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.”
“And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars