A Quotes
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“And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.”
Source: Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege
“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.”
Source: The Power of Positive Living
“And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt”
“And if the novel [The Education of Cyrus] remains dull by modern standards, we have to remind ourselves Xenophon didn't set out to write a "novel" — there was no such thing yet in his culture — but was feeling his way to a new form somewhere between factual history and fanciful epic. Our hat is always off to innovators.”
Source: The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
“and if the other man falls,
and not just any man
but a man also trained to take it,
they’re done, they’ve won
the purest win
and that’s what they’re dreaming,
these men in the back rooms
of The Blue Horizon”
Source: The Standing Eight
“And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?”
“And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.”
Source: Rape: The Politics of Consciousness
“And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted”
Source: The Importance of Living
“And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over that blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over the blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.
Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise.
Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice shard through my heart.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free.”
“And if the soul
Is to know itself
It is into a soul
That it must look:
The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.”
“And if the stars should ever die, we'll make our own light, you and I.”
“And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.”
Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
“And if the world asked me,
what is love?
I would not point to poems or stars or endless metaphors
I would simply point to her.
Because love is her.
In every curve, in every laugh, in every silence.
She is both the question and the answer.
And she is the forever I didn’t know how to ask for,
but was blessed to find.”
Source: The Ineffable Taste Of You
“and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.”
“And if the world does not in all respects correspond to our wishes, is this the fault of science, or of those who would impose their wishes on the world?”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.”
“And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.”
Source: Sonnets to Orpheus
“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it.
He bowed his head at the thought of how much strength a man would need to survive an entire life so lonely.”
Source: The corrections
“And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.”
Source: The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913
“And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.”
Source: With God and with Men: Prayers
“And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.”
“And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree”
“And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.”
“And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.”
“And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.”
Source: White Oleander
“And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?”
“And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.”
Source: The Hemingway Collection
“And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.”
Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.”
Source: The Theater and Its Double
“And if there is sweeter music this side of heaven I haven't heard it.”
“And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.”
Source: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
“And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.”
“And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.”
“And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.”
Source: I and Thou
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.”
“And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.”
“And if there's anyone out here tonight that doesn't feel beautiful enough, or doesn't feel worthy enought... You're wrong. Because you guys are all so incredible. And if you're dealing with any of the issues that I've dealt with, don't be afraid to speak up, because someone will be there for you. And if you think, you're alone, put on my music, because I'm going to be there for you”
“And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.”
“And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen."”
“And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.”
“And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.”
Source: Never Let Me Go
“And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.”
Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
“And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’s
you and me and Renny and Ted with nothing but time on our hands. I hope it’s, I don’t know, crossing an immeasurable distance with your closest friends.”
Source: Allison Hewitt Is Trapped
“And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.”
Source: Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3