Who Would Have Known Quotes

#1. Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

Ovid

#2. Who would have known
That a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly
Restoring my blisses
Who would have known
That a boy like him
After sharing my core
Would stay going nowhere

Bjork

#3. Who would have known kissing someone you love was so much better than kissing other girls?

Nyrae Dawn

#4. Who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes ... ?

John Geddes

#5. It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. 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

#7. I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Francois Rabelais

#8. [The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you.

Maya Angelou

#10. 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

#11. Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?

Joannah Miley

#12. 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

#13. Till to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#14. Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

Amelia Earhart

#15. 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

#16. I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Carrie Fisher

#17. It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

Jacob Bernoulli

#18. I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have written something more sensible, because now I have to dress up as a pirate for book signings ... I would have done a novel about a man who hangs around with a gaggle of models.

Gideon Defoe

#19. If Zoey Ashe had known she was being stalked by a man who intended to kill her and then slowly eat her bones, she would have worried more about that and less about getting her cat off the roof.

David Wong

#20. 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

#21. The thing is not to write what no one else has written but to write what only you could have written.'
I found this fragment in my old notebooks. The person who wrote that couldn't have known what would happen: how a voice hollows how words you once loved can wither on a page.

Nam Le

#22. Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. He taught me who I was, something I would never have known, without his deft Handling of my personality

Tarryn Fisher

#24. 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

#25. Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Richard Hovey

#26. If Harry had not known who lived there, he would have guessed at a rich, fussy old lady.

J.K. Rowling

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.

Ann Demeulemeester

#30. I have mentored two young aspiring actors and I wish that I had known I could look for a mentor because it would have been a lot easier to be able to ask those questions to someone who had gone through it already.

Erica Schroeder

#31. TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

Carlton Cuse

#32. Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?

Adam Langer

#33. As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love.

Hugh Latimer

#34. When you name your child after a grotesque gigantic creature known for slaughtering hundreds of innocents for the sole purpose of entertainment (okay so they were illegal immigrants who entered his realm) you must have a slight idea how that would turn out.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan