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Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.
— Mary E. Pearson
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.
— George Eliot
Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
— Brandon Sanderson
Act as if every day were the last of your life, and each action the last you perform. - ST. ALPHONSUS.
— Various
Life wasn't perfect, but it wasn't supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.
— Allie Burke
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
— Phillips Brooks
I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers.
— Penny Reid
I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead.
— Theodore Dalrymple
If there were a master of stupidity in this world,
I would really love to listen to his success story. — Toba Beta
I would really love to listen to his success story. — Toba Beta
It's your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn't. Home is death.
— Jeff Abbott
If you were really humble you would be great, because humility would never squander the magnificent gift of life.
— Bryant McGill
Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.
— Melissa Kantor
Live as if you were eternal.
— Andre Maurois
Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded.
— D.H. Lawrence
I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.
— Sofia Vergara
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
— Richard Dawkins
If you agree that the person you were few years ago will take advice from the person you are now, you have made a clear progress in life.
— Dhaval Gajera
If becoming a person of faith were more like, say, receiving a personality transplant, life would be easier.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
[ ... ]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken.
— H.J. Brues
If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?
— Pearl S. Buck
If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.
— Gwendoline Christie
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...
— Margaret Mitchell
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
— Joseph Addison
If life were easy, it wouldn't be difficult.
— Kermit The Frog
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.
— Iain S. Thomas
If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
— Elisabeth Elliot
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Testimony to her belief that life could be managed if things were only kept in their proper places.
— Carolee Dean
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
— Haruki Murakami
It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?
— Syrie James
If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.
— Sanober Khan
If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life.
— Arthur Ashe
If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.
— Caterina Sforza
If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad -
— Jasper Fforde
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
— Ethel Waters
If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.
— Sara Levine
Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.
— Zack Love
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
— Friedrich Engels
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
— Mark Twain
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
— Sydney Smith
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
— Ben Stein
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness ...
— Henry David Thoreau
If we were all perfect in our pasts, then we'd have nothing to hope for in our futures
— Jenny Oliver
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
— Marcus Aurelius
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
— Wendell Berry
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
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
— Denis Waitley
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
— Jessye Norman
If life were predictable it would cease to be life,and be without flavor
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
— Jorge Luis Borges
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
— Confucius
Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean
— Wasif Ali Wasif
If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.
— Peter Dinklage
Endless nights took on my whole life. Or so I thought. It turns out that all your friends, they were just mean, dressed up.
— Tegan Quin
I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.
— Amin Maalouf
I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.
— Robin Hobb
If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?
— Alethea Kontis
If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
— Billy Graham
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
— Alexandre Dumas
But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?
— Franz Kafka
Live each day as if it were the first day of marriage and the last day of vacation.
— Unknown Author 47
Life is a process of creation, and you keep living it as if it were a process of re-enactment!
— Neale Donald Walsch
If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go.
— Jim Butcher
A little danger is better than a lot of safety if being safe means being without the person with whom you were meant to share your life.
— Lisa C. Temple
Something important is always about to happen ... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.
— Julia Quinn
If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.
— Deepak Chopra
I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.
— Elena Ferrante
If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.
— Salman Rushdie
The anvil is hard so that it can help shape the blade. If life were easy, we would all be soft and misshapen shards of metal, tossed into a bin.
— J.M. Bush
I consider telling him the truth. That if I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life
— Colleen Hoover
As if life were a joke, and heaven the place where the cosmic punchline is finally explained to us. There
— Stephen King
Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.
— Robert Smith Surtees
If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.
— Francis Chan
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
— Madeleine Albright
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
— Ray Bradbury
If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.
— Henri Pirenne
Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
— Channing Tatum
When you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen.
— Charles Bukowski
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau