I Quotes
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“If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.”
“If he was nervous, even I could not tell. I watched as he greeted them, spoke ringing words that made them stand up straighter. They grinned, loving every inch of their miraculous prince: his gleaming hair, his deadly hands, his nimble feet. They leaned toward him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.”
Source: Dusky Ruth and Other Stories
“If he was paralyzed, we'd have to put in ramps and have things altered for wheelchair access; you can get kitchens refitted; bathrooms altered ... I'd get him a really fast wheelchair. It'd be OK. If he couldn't talk, I'd get him a great computer. Anything can be dealt with, everything can be overcome. Just be alive. Just, please God, I beg you, please, please keep him alive for me.”
Source: On The Edge
“If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.”
“If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man".”
“If he was scared enough to try to kill me, it wasn’t without a cause.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.”
Source: Lolita
“If he was so goddam stupid not to realize it was Saturday night and everybody was out or asleep or home for the week end, I wasn't going to break my neck telling him.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“If he was the right guy, you wouldn’t have walked from him. You would’ve ran to him.”
“If he was to be treated no better than an animal, he would at least learn the limits of his cage.”
Source: Stealing the Wind
“If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“If he wasn't angry, he certainly did a good imitation. His voice was clipped and as hard as stone. She wrung her hands together. "I love you. Clay."
"No, you don't."
Meg felt as though he'd just slapped her. "Yes, I do. When you leave this town, I'll go with you."
Narrowing his eyes, he studied her. "Will you marry me?"
"Yes."
"Will you give me children?"
"If I can. Kirk and I were never able to conceive, but if I can have children, I want to have yours."
"In this town that we move to, wherever it is, will you walk down the street with me?"
"Of course."
"Holding my hand?"
"Yes."
"And the hands of my children?"
"Yes."
He unfolded his arms and took a step toward her. She wanted to fling herself into his embrace, but something hard in his eyes stopped her.
"And what happens, Mrs. Warner, when someone you know rides through town and points at me and calls me a yellow-bellied coward? What will you do then? Will you let go of my hand and take my children to the other side of the street? Will you pretend that you haven't kissed me, that you haven't lain with me beneath the stars?" With disgust marring his features, he turned away. "You think I'm a coward. Go home."
"I don't think that. I love you."
He spun around. "You don't believe in that love, you don't believe in me."
"Yes, I do."
He stalked toward her. She backed into the corner and bent her head to meet his infuriated gaze.
"How strongly do you believe in our love?" he asked, his voice ominously low. "If they threatened to strip off your clothes unless you denied our love, would you deny our love?"
He gave her no chance to respond, but continued on, his voice growing deeper and more ragged, as though he were dredging up events from the past.
"If they wouldn't let you sleep until you denied our love, would you deny our love so you could lay your head on a pillow?
"If they stabbed a bayonet into your backside every time your eyes drifted closed, would you deny our love so your flesh wouldn't be pierced?
"If they applied a hot brand to your flesh until you screamed in agony, would you deny our love so they'd take away the iron?
"If they placed you before a firing squad, would you say you didn't love me so they wouldn't shoot you?"
He stepped back and plowed his hands through his hair. "You think I'm a coward. You don't think I have the courage to stand beside you and risk the anger of your father. I'd die before I turned away from anyone or anything I believed in. You won't even walk by my side."
He looked the way she imagined soldiers who had lost a battle probably looked: weary, tired of the fight, disillusioned.
"You don't believe in me," he said quietly. "How can you believe in our love?”
Source: Always to Remember
“If he wasn't careful he'd be "off to the races" again and he could feel the happy little ponies inside him bouncing in delight at the thought.”
Source: Snow Globe
“If he wasn't careful, he'd fall to chasing his own mind, trapped in the maddening game of don't think about that.”
Source: The Golem and the Jinni
“If he wasn’t her sworn enemy, killer, and a known lunatic, she may have admired his dedication to the cause.”
Source: The Final Downfall
“If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.”
Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard
“If he were a baked treat, he'd be a seven-layer bar- the perfect combination of sweet and salty, exotic coconut and homey caramel, and supported by a good, strong, buttery shortbread crust.”
Source: Midsummer's Mayhem
“If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
“If he were... a prince... a real one, a human one... would he get to just go inside with her on his arm? What would her father say? A prince on the arm of his daughter? What would happen then? Could they... could they marry? There was no one left in the kingdom to object to him marrying below his station.
Would Belle even like him?
Did she like him now?
She hadn't pulled away when he had kissed her, before... and she had kissed him just now. That was something, right?”
Source: As Old as Time
“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however ofter Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.”
Source: 1984
“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.”
“If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“If he were going to put regular people to death, he'd probably use some kind of cheap, regular person poison.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“If He were just a theory, just a doctrine, with no experience of Him woven into us, I doubt that faith in Him would ever last long. . Of course, it can't be proved that what happened to me was more than psychological...Once you believe God and He becomes real, the doubts of the intellect, while difficult and persistent and demanding answers, lose some of their power, because you have the sense that the part of you that doubts and mocks and postures as heroic for doing so is only the blind part, and that this part is not to be given as much credence as you gave it before you had an experience of God.
I was not convinced by rational argument of things I had not believed
before—instead, I saw them through another faculty entirely, and my reason has followed along in
the wake of that experience, examining the evidence, sifting the facts, analyzing the possibilities
of deception or contradiction … but always knowing itself to be in the presence of something
greater than itself, something that it dare not try to mock or erase or entirely belittle. Reason has
been eager to investigate whether my experience can be evaluated in an intellectual way and yet
stand. But reason comes along behind, it cannot have the last word; it is mute even when it
occasionally has the impulse to mock or to challenge, and speaks mostly when it has rational
insight into the thing greater than itself (faith)—or into some aspect of it, since reason is unable to
completely understand or explain … My inner life has become more real to me than my intellectual
life, if I may distinguish them. Light simply explains itself—or doesn't explain, just shines. Once I
had seen this sort of light pouring down on everything, my interest in intellectual things was to
probe this mystery from the intellectual angle—not so much to prove that it could be true
(although that is always interesting!) as to support by reason, if it's possible, why it is true. I was
willing to assent to things that could not be proven on an intellectual basis because the results of
believing that they were true had a power that surpassed comprehension.”
Source: The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth
“If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can’t say it; it is too close to passion, and passion is too close to love, and love is amor deliria nervosa, the deadliest of all deadly things: It is the reason for the games of pretend, for the secret selves, for the spasms in the throat.”
“If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.”
“If he were only interested in me for one thing, he’d have moved on when it didn’t go perfectly the first time.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“If he were to look up at her now, he’d know exactly how stupid she was. She couldfeel her face go soft and gummy. If Park were to look up at her now, he’d know everything.”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“If he were to put his heart in my hand, he might never find it again. And I'm not cruel enough to let him break while he tries to heal the impossible.”
Source: Faking Normal
“If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.”
Source: The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience
“If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.”
“If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness: By William Godwin
“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..”
Source: The Social Contract
“If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.”
Source: Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies
“If he who hath posterity in Sion and kindred in Jerusalem hath been called happy, verily how much happier are we, for we have posterity in the heavenly Jerusalem. Verily.....”
Source: Legends of Eastern Saints Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Volume 1: Archelides; Volume 2: Hilaria. Bound with: Eusebii Pamphilii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Lib X, Ed A Schwegler.
“If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If he wins a fourth Super Bowl, he's the greatest ever in my book.”
“If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.”
“If he wontmarry you then don`t sleep with him.”
“If he worried that he was bringing along a high-maintenance Hollywood actress on safari, Harry was delightfully surprised by Meghan’s down-to-earth attitude. While camping, she cleaned her face with baby wipes and happily wandered into the woodlands if she needed a bathroom break.”
Source: Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family
“If he would not listen to her, there was nothing left to say.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.”
Source: Bird After Bird
“If he wouldn't take charge of this, she would. "Take off your clothes.”
Source: Dangerous Craving
“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”
“If he'd [Jesus] been a little more concerned for his own safety and well being he may have toned things down a little bit and probably at best he'd be remembered as a Rabbi who said some cool things but that nobody really reads anymore. There's tons of them.”
“If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.”
“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.”