Top 100 If I Would Have Known Quotes
#1. If I would have known I was going to leave my job that day to become a writer, I probably would have planned differently... It didn't come by way of illness per se, accident, or dismissal, but by way of sheer self-mutiny. The self I was born to be, decided to hijack the one I had created.
Dawn Kohler
#2. I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing.
Misty Copeland
#3. I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.
John Lloyd Young
#4. If I'd known you were coming, I would have lived differently.
Eve Dangerfield
#5. If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
#6. Jesus was a loyal Jew. It was Paul who invented the idea of taking the Jewish God to the Gentiles. Hartung puts it more bluntly than I dare: 'Jesus would have turned over in his grave if he had known that Paul would be taking his plan to the pigs.' Hartung
Richard Dawkins
#7. Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.
Iain Pears
#8. He should have fucking known. He should have read Eve's damn case study, but he'd been so sure that he was right, that he couldn't possibly be wrong. Yeah, well, if I'd paid any attention to Eve's profile, I would have. She knew. But I was far too smart. I thought I had the fucker
Lexi Blake
#9. By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.
Mark Spitz
#10. I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg
#11. I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#12. I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.
Jodi Picoult
#13. I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does?
[ ... ]but, if eternity existed, it would be this moment.
Yukio Mishima
#14. How many people are we going to lose before the universe decides we've had enough?" Carly asked me. I didn't answer, but if I had known what was coming I would have said, "All of them.
Anna Jarzab
#15. And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault."
"It isn't?"
"No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb."
Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.
Christine Feehan
#16. If I'd known I was about to meet the man who'd shatter me like bone china on terra-cotta, I would have slept in. Instead,
Martha Hall Kelly
#17. And if she had not come back to me ... if you had not come ... if I had known for sure that both of you were dead ... Then I would still have lived ... and done what must be done. So will you.
Diana Gabaldon
#18. Helmut, if I had known that one can make it to 90 on 60 cigarettes a day, I would have started smoking 30 years ago. [at Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's 90th birthday]
Henry Kissinger
#19. I wanted to come, and if I hadn't, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.
Connie Willis
#20. If I'd known I should meet a damn bear, Jamie said, grunting as he lifted another stone into place, I would have taken another path.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Peter O'Toole
#23. I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?
Bethany Hamilton
#24. I clenched my fist around the railing, finally forcing myself to acknowledge what that meant. I'd always known, of course. It was always there, at the back of my mind; I just didn't want to think about it. But if Ember was the sleeper ... I would have to kill her.
Julie Kagawa
#25. If I known it would be like this, I would have taken you sooner.
Cindy Skaggs
#26. Would I have known that mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not? And would I have dared to challenge rules later in life if my father had obeyed them?
Gloria Steinem
#27. I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.
CeeLo Green
#28. If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.
Peter Thiel
#29. He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in the water to get him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you did throw one in. He would even have brought back a piano if you had thrown one in.
James Thurber
#30. Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.
Cassandra Clare
#31. I grieved his loss, but I think it would have been worse if I'd never known him. I loved that I'd loved him.
R.K. Ryals
#32. My biggest regret? Well, I got my boobs done in my early 20's and if I had known it would or could possibly have impacted production of milk, I would never have had them done. I love being a mom.
Tori Spelling
#33. We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
Larry Page
#35. If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
Albert Einstein
#36. If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
Pablo Picasso
#37. The person that I had been existed no longer. If I had been able to conjure him up and speak to him he would not have listened to me and, if he had, would not have understood what I said. He was like someone whom I had known once, but he was no part of me.
Sadegh Hedayat
#38. Oh, I take your meaning now, Marcus," he said, as if comprehension had just dawned. "You would have me harken back to a time when the outcome of a contest was not known until after the voting. How nostalgic.
Andrew Levkoff
#39. I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
Christopher Hampton
#40. If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.
Philip K. Dick
#41. I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.
Kiera Cass
#42. When people ask if I'm going to be sad that 'The Office' is over, they don't even understand the depth of that question for me. It's an era of my life. No one would have known my name if it wasn't for the show.
John Krasinski
#43. If you had known this: I love mercy, 45 not sacrifice, you would not have condemned those on whom is no blame.
Tatian The Assyrian
#44. If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.
Ace Frehley
#45. If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably would have tied all those hope-chest linens into a rope and hung myself from a tree!
Barbara Kingsolver
#46. If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?
Frank Warren
#47. It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.
Jason Marsden
#48. If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.
Nicholas Sparks
#49. If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took.
Felix O. Hartmann
#50. If I had known, would I have gone back sooner? If there was an audible reshuffle and click every time my path was altered, some Jumanji-like close-up of a game piece slotting into place, would it have changed our fate? It could have been that moment or a million before it; I'll never know.
Vikki Wakefield
#51. If I'd known Ashton wanted my attention at any point I would have pushed Nicole aside and
given her my undivided attention. But most of the time she was wrapped in Sawyer's arms and I needed
the distraction Nicole provided.
Abbi Glines
#52. I've been known to be contrary. When something pushes me, I shove back. Even if the one doing the pushing is me. It would have been easy to gut him then and there. Satisfying. But the need was too urgent. I felt pushed.
Mark Lawrence
#53. I should have known better than to lie to the government. People always said Uncle Sam would spend a thousand dollars to get you if you stole a three-cent stamp from him. He was more revengeful than God. I
Maya Angelou
#54. I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
William Westmoreland
#55. I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have been a lot more relaxed. I'm really happy with the result and I think Bjorn helped me take it in directions I couldn't have taken it in myself. It is a scary thing to be putting it in other people's hands, but it's really necessary sometimes.
Sarah Blasko
#56. If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.
Natalie Portman
#57. But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean that there's a new me and if you think I've changed, then the slightest could have fooled me.
Drake
#58. My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#59. I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself ... It later occurred to me that I was not only announcing things to my family; I was announcing it to the world. Of course, if the play had been a flop, only my family would have known.
Mart Crowley
#60. I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.
Nicole Luiken
#61. I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.
Andre Dubus
#62. If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better.
Yangsze Choo
#63. What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?
Jennifer Niven
#64. If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
Andy Rooney
#65. When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that."
Rian Johnson
#66. I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.
Poppy Z. Brite
#67. You want to know
whether i believe in ghosts
of course i do not believe in them
if you had known
as many of them as i have
you would not
believe in them either
Don Marquis
#68. If i had known ... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#69. I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
#70. If I had known that this movie would bring so much craziness, I don't know if I would have said 'yes' to the Twilight Saga. I never asked to be a poster-boy.
Robert Pattinson
#71. I've been trying to get you to say I'm wonderful from the first time you plowed into me. If I'd known that all it would take was handing you a toothbrush, I would have done that a long time ago. My loss.
J. Lynn
#72. You drive well for a woman."
"That is so patronising. If I'd known you were going to say something like that I would have wrapped your precious Ferrari round a lamppost.
Sarah Morgan
#73. I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.
Mitt Romney
#74. Layla smiled through her tears, "If I'd known that all it would take to get us talking is a romantic getaway to a bombed-out part of Eastern Europe, I would have gotten Kendra to set it up a long time ago."
"Romantic, huh?" He smiled. "I like romantic.
Paige Tyler
#75. The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.
Shirley Jackson
#76. And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.
Richard Llewellyn
#77. If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
Lois Wyse
#78. If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
#79. If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.
Susan Wittig Albert
#80. No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late.
Michelle Obama
#81. This I have always known - that if I did not live my life immersed in the one activity which suits me, and which also, to tell the truth, keeps me utterly happy and intrigued, I would come someday to bitter and mortal regret.
Mary Oliver
#82. If I'd known it would be that good, I might not have resisted for so long.
Delilah S. Dawson
#83. I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.
Jeff Kinney
#84. Had these beliefs, if I had not known that I must live for God and not for my own desires? I should have robbed and lied and killed. Nothing of what makes the chief happiness of my life would have existed for me.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.
Wilhelm Keitel
#86. How far would you go for someone you love ? I heard this story, about this woman, who actually lifted a car off of her baby. 'Course I would have said, Dude! Back up. But, wasn't my kid. When I was born, if I'd have known all the stuff my dad was going to do for me, I'd have crawled right back in.
Christopher Titus
#87. Now maybe that Arizona incident will make sense to you. I had to get out of that apartment, because if I had stayed in that situation I would have switched, and then all of you would've known the secret that I've kept for so, so long.
Marlene Steinberg
#88. If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
Thomas Hobbes
#89. I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.
Ted Michael
#90. Maybe I should have gone back to Weight Watchers and tried harder to lose my luscious hips and overlarge ass. If I'd known it might keep me from being abducted by aliens, you bet I would have counted points until Doomsday. It's
Evangeline Anderson
#91. I've never been the kind of man who believed in dreams, Kat. That wasn't the hand I got dealt. So I sure as hell never spent any time chasing them." He swallowed hard and nodded. "But meeting you . . . if I could've dreamed, if I'd have even known what to dream of, it would've been of you.
Laura Kaye
#92. Eric: If I had known you would be this gorgeous with your clothes off, I would have tried to do this sooner.
Sookie: You did try to do this sooner, about twenty times.
Eric: Then I have good taste.
Charlaine Harris
#93. Words streamed from my mouth, some familiar, some not.
The last of the were, "I love you."
He rose up off me with a grin. "If I'd known it was that easy to get you to admit how you feel, I would have done this a long time ago.
Cora Carmack
#94. If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#95. Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc
#96. It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.
Jacqueline Carey
#97. If I'd known you were in my future, I would have chosen differently.
Natasha Boyd
#98. If I'd known a sixty-niner was the way to your heart I would have done it weeks ago.
Amy Andrews
#99. If I had known you would show up at my door one day, I'd have done everything differently. Everything.
Colleen Hoover
#100. I thought they loved me, and they would scarcely have known it if I had died. All through our troubles, I was comforted with the thought that the brethren in Maulmain and America were praying for us, and they have never once thought of us.
Adoniram Judson
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