Top 100 If I Knew Quotes
#1. Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flashed through my mind but I just smiled and said I used to.
Wiz Khalifa
#2. My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.
Ben Saunders
#3. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. I don't know where my songs come from ... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.
Judy Collins
#5. I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you'd run for cover. (Zarek)
Only if I knew you'd be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them ... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life.
L.A. Witt
#7. But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. If I knew then what I know now, I would still be dreaming BIG today.
Tim Storey
#9. I couldn't bear living if I knew I'd caused you pain. I'd rather you not know me at all, than to think of me and cry.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. So what would make you happy?" "Well, if I knew that, I'd do it.
Rainbow Rowell
#12. What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.
Oswald Pohl
#13. I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!
Alexander Chee
#14. I hurl the glass teapot to the ground.
we both stare at it, stunned.
"it was supposed to break," I explain after a pause, " and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.
Sophie Kinsella
#15. If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.
Hank Aaron
#16. I believe if I knew where I was going, I'd lose my way.
Christina Perri
#17. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
#18. If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.
David Ben-Gurion
#19. If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.
Dale Carnnegie
#20. And there you have it ... if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.
Karen Marie Moning
#21. You can't really make the decision for the coaches. I don't know what's going to happen. If I knew, then I would tell you, but I don't.
Ron Dayne
#22. If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#23. I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"
Lewis Mumford
#24. If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.
Steve Toltz
#25. You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
Muhammad Ali
#26. Would it be worth it to have the mutation if I knew she loved me? I wonder. If I could trade places with him right now, would I do it?
Ally Condie
#27. As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.
Kim Mitchell
#28. It is as if I knew you before we spoke
Do our hearts know something we don't?
Conspiring, converging without giving us any say
Brooke Fraser
#29. If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
Terry Pratchett
#30. Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
William Ury
#31. I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity.
Linda Sunshine
#32. He wasn't so elderly after all, I saw: probably just a few years older than I. And yet I was never able (and am still not) to think of myself as old. I talked as if I knew I was; I bemoaned my age. But it was only for comedy, or to make other people feel young.
Hanya Yanagihara
#33. True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
Jane Lindskold
#34. Children are all sorts of people, aren't they, and I suppose if I knew more I'd find some I like and some I don't, just like everyone else.
Ann Leckie
#36. If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.
Max Brooks
#37. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose.
Kevin Keck
#39. If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
Pierce Brosnan
#40. When I went to auditions, if I didn't know the lines, I wasn't getting the job. If I knew my lines, if I knew what I was supposed to be doing, I got the job. And it was always like that - if I'm working hard, I get the result that I'm looking for.
Shameik Moore
#41. I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. She's a nice girl, someone I would like to be friends with if I knew how.
Rebecca Starford
#43. You dress to please yourself. If she doesn't like you for you, then you don't need her.' All of this would be fine if I knew exactly who me for me was.
Jennifer Niven
#44. Some of them I probably would like. Some of my fans probably beat their wives or run over little kids and they just happen to watch me on TV and like the way I ski. Obviously I clearly wouldn't like that person if I knew 'em better.
Bode Miller
#45. If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?
Judd Hirsch
#46. I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.
Eugene Levy
#47. If i knew my life would turn out this way, i would of killed myself a long time ago.
Billy Bob Thornton
#48. If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight.
Kron Gracie
#49. To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
Sheila Heti
#50. I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.
Meg Cabot
#51. If I knew what to do
I'd do more than write a song for you
Criss Jami
#52. If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Leonard Cohen
#53. If I knew this is your final goodbye; I'd have told you that still I've a lot of things to say. I'd have told you how you changed my life, how you made me close to Me, how you made me realize the beauty of the world.
If only I knew, this is your final goodbye ... I'd have never let you say it ...
Crestless Wave
#54. If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
Marc Wallice
#55. If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.
James Galvin
#56. If I knew I was never going to see you again, I'd choose to die tonight, with the taste of you still on my tongue, the feel of your body still on my hands, and your scent lingering in my nose, than live another day without those things.
Kristin Miller
#57. God, he could be a prick. A moody, stubborn prick who I would avoid if I knew what was good for me.
It seemed I never quite learnt my lessons very well in life.
Nina Levine
#58. I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
Luchino Visconti
#59. Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
Arthur Miller
#60. If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
Joel Edgerton
#61. If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
Frank Gehry
#62. If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.
Pablo Picasso
#63. I don't know. I don't understand how boys think. If I knew that I'd be a millionare.
Magan Vernon
#64. Am I boring you? I don't really care, I suppose, but I'll be more comfortable if I knew all this interested you. No doubt when I get the hang of storytelling, after a chapter or two, I'll go faster and digress less often.
John Barth
#65. If I knew what I was thinking [ ... ] I would never have become a writer.
Amelie Nothomb
#66. I'm perfectly fine with being used. But I would like to know for what I'm being used.
Distraction
That much I gathered. What am I supposed to be distracting you from? There's a chance that if I knew, I could do my job more effectively.
Kody Keplinger
#67. I'd never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and have the possibility to love.
Audrey Hepburn
#68. I'd fire that woman if I knew how to operate a vacuum.
Joey W. Hill
#69. If I knew this was what I was gonna get out of playing ball, I would have picked it up years ago.
Eve Jagger
#70. If I knew that, I'd fall in love over and over again. Hearts aren't supposed to be mended. If you fall in love and it doesn't work out, you get a broken heart. What comes out of that will make you a better lover and partner next time.
Griffin Dunne
#71. If I knew you and you knew me- If both of us could clearly see, And with an inner sight divine The meaning of your heart and mine I'm sure that we would differ less And clasp our hands in friendliness: Our thoughts would pleasantly agree, If I knew you and you knew me.
Nixon Waterman
#72. This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia Woolf
#73. Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.
Megan Whalen Turner
#74. If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?
David Wong
#75. If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Mignon McLaughlin
#76. I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.
Ash Gray
#77. For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
Frank Gehry
#78. With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright
#79. Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
Brenda Ueland
#80. Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.
If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.
Ammon Shea
#81. If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words out of my mouth. My words might not be magic, but they cut straight to the truth. So if you need a lover and a friend, baby, I'm in.
Keith Urban
#82. Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.
Emil Cioran
#83. Here's the thing - even if it was just sex, even if he didn't say "I love you," even if I knew it wouldn't last, you have to understand that I would have been alone without him. I would have been so alone.
David Levithan
#84. On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.
Paul Merton
#86. And what if there are no damsels in distress?
What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?
Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down,
whether or not you ever show up?
Ani DiFranco
#87. Do I dare ask him for what I want,
As if I knew it,
Could find it on some page
In some chapter
In some book?
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#88. You can't question what has no answer. If I knew then it would not be true love. It would have because attached. I love you because this reason, or that reason. Real love has no because attached.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#89. I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.
Robert Breault
#90. I don't know what I'm looking for."
"What not?"
"Because ... because ... I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them.
Douglas Adams
#91. One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
Rachel Carson
#92. For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
Learned Hand
#93. If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
Baron De Montesquieu
#94. If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not
Rupi Kaur
#95. Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
Jonathan Coe
#96. If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn't make it. It was almost like it was made already.. the challenge is more about trying to make what you can't think of.
Cindy Sherman
#97. My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.
Richard Roxburgh
#98. They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.
Malcolm X
#99. Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
Chuck Klosterman
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