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"Wouldn't it be nice if we could live this way always?" said Ruth, as she put a large raisin in her mouth. "Yes," replied Agnes, "but " "Now, Agnes, do leave the buts and ifs out once, and say that you would really like it."
We can do this all the better if we do not allow frightfulness and fanaticism to impress us so deeply that we throw up our hands peevishly, and lose interest in the longer run of time because we have lost faith in the future of man. There is no ground for this despair, because all the ifs on which, as James said, our destiny hangs, are as pregnant as they ever were.
I know not, quoth Pantagruel, which of all my answers to lay hold on; for your proposals are so full of ifs and buts, that I can ground nothing on them, nor pitch upon any solid and positive determination satisfactory to what is demanded by them. Are not you assured within yourself of what you have a mind to? The chief and main point of the whole matter lieth there.
"You know my name!" cried Danvers, "but are wrong in supposing that I will stand an affront. If you are a gentleman " "If? Couldn't you waive ifs and buts long enough to try the Weehauken experiment and then investigate my pedigree? The question is, are you a man or a dastard?" "Swaller your fire, young salamander," broke in the captain of the boat. "We hain't got no time to fuss nor fight duels.
Then, when the Lord had taught him his lesson effectually, and when Peter saw that he had not yet explored all the ideas of the Divine mind about the extension of His kingdom, and that his business was to follow his Lord's directions, and not to have his own "ifs" and "buts," but go ahead and do as God bade him, then Peter goes on to carry out the Divine direction.
The legislators have been very wrong hitherto in disdaining to regulate the lot of courtesans. XXIII. The courtesan is an institution if she is a necessity. This question bristles with so many ifs and buts that we will bequeath it for solution to our descendants; it is right that we shall leave them something to do.
"The Kid had followed me into the office, and at this point said, very respectfully: "'Excuse me, sir, but Mr. Wainright and I get along so nicely together. Daniels is a bad man; so is Kelly; and neither will get along with decent men. Why can't you "'There! stop right there, young man. Now, will you go on the 17 as ordered? "'Yes, if Jim Wainright runs her. "'No ifs about it; will you go?
This is because predictions concerned with the far future are highly uncertain and investors refuse to base current decisions on fuzzy "what ifs". This is a problem because many current investments, such as the fight against global warming, are likely to yield results only decades hence. There is no effective method of cost/benefit analysis applicable to such time horizons.
I was not ready to consent to an unconditional surrender. "I hate your 'ifs' and 'buts' and so-much-given-for-so-much-got," she exclaimed with an impatient, little stamp, "but but " she added inconsistently, "if if you'll keep one end of the plaid for yourself, I'll take the other." "Ho ho! I like 'ifs' and 'buts. Have you more of that kind?" I laughed, whisking the fold about us both.
He sat down, his head upon his hand and his thoughts upon his daughter. "Poor child!" he said to himself. "It will go hard with her. But there can be no 'ifs' or 'ands' about it now. Her mother must take her away where there will be no possibility of her seeing him again. Poor little girl!" He rose with a weary sigh and crossed to the door into the waiting room.
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