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She woke to the sound of his heart knocking against his chest. As though it was searching for a way out. — Arundhati Roy

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. — Jimmy Carter

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. — Holly Black

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. — Ralph Ellison

I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example. — Steve Garvey

Russell looked as though he were in very dire need of a trip to the bathroom. — Christopher Andrews

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him. — Colm Toibin

When I saw the kouros for the first time," he said, "I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work. — Malcolm Gladwell

Emit gratitude as though it was done — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature. — Neville Cardus

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus. — Ellen G. White

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future. — William S. Burroughs

I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense. — Eleanor Powell

I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train. — Jayde Scott

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown. — Margaret Atwood

I saw him open his mouth wide ... as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him. — Joseph Conrad

Thus do I capitalize years as though they were proper names. — Kurt Vonnegut

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well. — Anthony Mackie

Garden as though you will live forever. — William Kent

This is life." he says. "We have to take it as it comes, because even though some things are really shitty, there's a lot of good stuff too. — Rebecca Serle

They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them. — James K. Morrow

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though. — Shanna Swendson

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. — Francis Wheen

The next level. As though dating were a computer game. — Janette Rallison

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success. — Warren Buffett

'Es cor meum,' he murmured, his eyes dancing over my face.
Though I'd never heard the phrase, I responded: 'Ut tu meus.' As you are mine. — T.J. Klune

I cringed, though; for as much as I did not want to marry a troll, I was just as certain the troll didn't want to marry me. — Danielle L. Jensen

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves. — Maya Rudolph

Occasionally Rebecca wished her son would not be so very kind to her, as though she was the losing pitcher on a Little League team. — Anna Quindlen

It was as though all the angels of heaven and all the demons of hell danced together in his soul. — Max Griffin

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist. — Patrick Suskind

But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat. — Tad Williams

What fun it all was, she thought, and how entirely new and delicious being taken care of as though she were a thing that mattered, a precious thing! — Elizabeth Von Arnim

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried. — Ken Kesey

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality. — C.S. Lewis

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. — Viktor E. Frankl

But Jaypaw seemed to be guided by invisible paws, as though he walked in a secret world she could never be part of. They — Erin Hunter

They were treated as though they were angels sent from God to save them from everlasting destruction - therefore, — Joseph Smith Jr.

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake. — Jean Dujardin

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous. — Barbara Sher

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. — Criss Jami

I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot. — James Patterson

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. — Katherine Mansfield

You should never live according to what you lack. Instead, live as though you can do anything you dream of doing. — Nick Vujicic

It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all. — Desiderius Erasmus

Forbidden fruit is always very intriguing ... though never as tasty as one imagined it would be. — Claudy Conn

The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. — Seneca.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen. — Edward Albee

As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet. — Gautama Buddha

Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her. — Gail Sheehy

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did. — Boy George

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth. — Frank Delaney

It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest. — Stacy Morris

I passed by the brothel as though
past the house of a beloved. — Franz Kafka

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do? — Ingrid Law

Had going on it.' Lindell laughed as though I had suggested something absurd. — Michael Connelly

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not. — Aldous Huxley

Now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away. — Elizabeth Goudge

Else. "Anyway," she continued, "it sounds as though the duke has plans for us." She glanced at both of her sisters. "What sort of plans? — Rose Gordon

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. — Epictetus

seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall. — Harold Bloom

Izzy felt as though she'd wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic. — Tessa Dare

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything. — Michael Gilbert

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste. — Thomm Quackenbush

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat ... — Nick Gordon

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. — Brian Eno

I sat down on the sofa, strangely restless, it was as though the tempo inside me was greater than that outside. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. — Charles Dickens

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless. — Ellen Kushner

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so. — Rau'Shee Warren

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you. — N.D. Wilson

It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign. — Linda Hunt

Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He spoke with complicity, familiarly, as though he knew me; as though his soul and mine had been waiting for each other since the beginning of time. — Maria Duenas

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. — Seneca The Younger

Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. — Ernest Hemingway,

What difference can a bunch of photographers make?" Rosier sneered. "Most of them look as though they're a hamburger away from a heart attack. — Kirsten Miller

For me the motley and the bauble, yea,
Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith,
The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath! — Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them. — Bertrand Russell

As perfect as we can make it from so far away. I wouldn't trade it, though. I'll take 3000 miles over any other man in the same room with me. — Kahlen Aymes

Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may very well feel like the opposite. — Augusten Burroughs

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover. — Edward Frenkel

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world. — Sam Harris

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well. — Jonathan Krohn

Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform. — Tim Winton

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don't love me as hers do. — Louisa May Alcott

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful. — Ernest Hemingway,

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. — Jane Austen

Why did so many die in the night? As though they wished to kiss us and deliver us with sweet dreams before taking their leave of the world. — Ruth Downie

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches. — Vance Havner

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer. — Pope John Paul II