I Quotes
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“If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?'
"The Torah tells us He has made man in His own image, after His likeness, and therefore He does but glance at you, my son, and sees Himself.”
Source: The Physician
“if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.”
Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy
“If he goes down, he is to get up, and continue to fight, until I finish the process.”
“If he had a floppy dick, I would hardly expect him to find a way to shove it in regardless of the obvious indicator that things weren't ready yet. Why is the reverse acceptable?”
Source: The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon
“If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.”
“If he had a mind, there was something on it.”
Source: A Wodehouse Bestiary
“if he had an equal in his profession he had never acknowledged the fact.”
Source: The Chronicles of Clovis
“If he had another hair on his back, he'd be up a tree.”
“If he had any compassion for me' cried her husband impatiently 'he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Oh! that he sprained his ankle in the first dance!”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario”
“If he had but a little more brains, she thought to herself, I might make something of him; but she never let him perceive the opinion she had of him; listened with indefatigable complacency to his stories of the stable and the mess; laughed at all his jokes...When he came home, she was alert and happy; when he went out she pressed him to go; when he stayed at home, she played and sang for him, made him good drinks, superintended his dinner, warmed his slippers, and steeped his soul in comfort. The best of women {I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. We don't know how much they hide from us: how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential: how often those frank smile which they wear so easily are traps to cajole or elude or disarm--I don't mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models and paragons of female virute.”
Source: Vanity Fair
“If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)”
“If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.”
“If he had heard of the kiss, he would know I do not care for Holden, right? Foster and I have spent so much time together over the past month. And he said last night he would come again tonight. Why would he not?”
“If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.”
Source: The Secret History
“If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.”
Source: Khan: Empire of Silver
“If he had learned anything from his parents, he learned that business was a matter of relationships.”
Source: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
“If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn’t matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.”
Source: Khan: Empire of Silver
“If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.”
Source: The Power In Praising God
“If he had one true love, then he wanted you to have one, too.”
“If he had seen the futility of the sacrifice they made then mirrored in this ghastly holocaust...”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.”
Source: Ulysses
“If he had spent three or more years evading trained assassins and mercenaries, surely one fiend in a tiara didn’t pose a true threat.”
Source: The Heir and the Spare
“If he had the cleft tongue of a devil, or the snake hair of a Medusa, or the matted hair of a wolf-monster, Akhmed might understand. But Ramazan had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, pairs of arms and legs and ears, hair greasy, but not slimy and certainly not slithering, and Akhmed did not understand.”
Source: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“If he had to go back to that place in her life that he'd always occupied, he'd do it. Even if that place would never totally satisfy him, he'd resign himself to it if that's what it took. Whatever happened, he'd spend every day the rest of his life showing her unconditional love.”
Source: Finally His Bride
“If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.”
Source: Intertwined
“If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“If he hadn’t become a Buddhist monk, Sawaki Roshi would have been successful in a worldly sense in business, politics, or the military. Instead, he devoted his life to wholeheartedly practicing Dogen Zenji’s just sitting, or shikantaza, which according to him was good for nothing. For him, social climbing in pursuit of fame and profit was meaningless. The Japanese expression for “waste” is bonifuru, which means “sacrifice,” “lose all,” or “ruin.” So when we say he wasted his life, we use the expression in a paradoxical way—like saying that zazen is good for nothing.”
Source: The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“If he hadn’t been irrevocably hers already, that would have done him in. He’d drop to his knees for her. Crawl for her. He’d give up his kingdom, this world, his very soul for her. And he needed her to understand, needed her to realize all of that.”
“If he hadn’t been kissing me, if he hadn’t shown up and interrupted us, I would have gone out into that throne room covered in smudged paint. And everyone—especially Amarantha—would have known what I’d been up to. It wouldn’t have taken much to figure out whom I’d been with, especially not once they saw the paint on Tamlin. I didn’t want to consider what the punishment might have been.
Regardless of his motives or his methods, Rhysand was keeping me alive. And had done so even before I set foot Under the Mountain.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“If he hadn’t dragged me, I would never have made it up the hill.”
Source: Let It Snow
“If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.”
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.”
Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections
“If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.”
Source: Commentary on Colossians
“If he hasn't lined up the who he is, the what he does, and the how much he makes in the way that he sees fit, he can't possibly be to you what he wants to be.”
Source: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”
Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing
“If he invited you out, he's got to pay.”
“If he is a coward, it isn't because he doesn't enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act.”
Source: Divergent
“If he is a man on honor in one thing, he is that in all things.”
Source: The Simple Art of Murder
“If he is anti-Muslim, Noah reasoned, then he is probably an anti-Semite and a racist, too. What sites would he migrate to online? Noah logged in and opened Safari. He entered “anti-Semite, racist, anti-Muslim” on the search line and clicked ‘return.’ He was surprised to see how much animosity and bigotry there was in the world. Before his eyes was a smorgasbord of hate.”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it.”
“If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever be a line, or even if there is a line at all.”
“If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? IF HE HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?”
Source: Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays
“If he is not going anywhere in life, then look him straight in the eyes and inform him that you are not going anywhere with him either.”
Source: How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
“If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.”
“If he is smart, he will run. He is not.”
“If he is so evil, why are we standing here watching him?" Sabrina said.
"Cause I'm trying to get up the courage to go over and asking for an autograph," Puck said.”
Source: Tales From the Hood
“If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.”
“If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the terrorist [...] I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist.”