Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I didn't know then it was the beginning of something. If I had, I would have paid more attention."

• if I had known then what I know now
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• Would you like to know more?
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• I didn't even know he was sick!
• a thousand more names I would have called you. One more enormous thing.
• I would a thousand times rather have had a simple cheap sandwich with a friend
• If we had a more developed tailbone, would we wag our tail?
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• I would have leapt at the innuendo you had strewn at my feet.
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• The more you promote something, the less of it you have
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• If it had been able to, the light would have smiled
• I would have cooled this if you had written it
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• If you didn't have free will, would you know it?
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• At least I didn't have to pay...
• We have had enough of your beige
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• While you are suffering, know that I have betrayed you
• Why I didn't get my driver's license until I was 18
• When I was young Time had no wings
• Signs that you or someone you know may have a problem with drugs or alcohol
• I would have liked thunder when she left
• The More You Know
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• Attention has been paid
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• If this were in person, I would have kissed her now
• At least I have something to show for my awkward days
• I would like to have emotions
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• The "How many partners have you had" question
• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
• I know something
• The less you know, the more money you make
• I know that all the cannabis activists would like you to believe differently but
• Prices should have no more than 2 significant digits
• I have more stories about trains for you
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• You, standing
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• I didn't always have this cool job
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• I know more when I'm alone
• Was it something I said?
• When we kiss I can hear your thoughts, so I would rather we didn't
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• If you had to invent a language with no more than one hundred words
• Something that may have changed my life...
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• Would ye have a young Virgin of fifteen Years
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• The more I learn about photography the less I want to know
• Just when you get really good at something, you don't need to do it any more
• How can something be more beautiful than it is?
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• Don Quixote had his windmills, I have my helicopters
• Things that would have seemed unbelievable about 11 years ago
• Americans have more than 40 words for boobies
• If it were a snake, it would have bit me
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• it was true then
• I didn't know what to say
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• I know something about love
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• If I didn't ask, I'd never know (how much you hate me)
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• Didn't you know?
• Karl Marx must have had a lousy job
• If I had the nerve, I would ask you
• How does the Military Selective Service Act apply to individuals who have had a sex change?
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• More than a mouthful is a waste
• You asked me once what I would remember... this, and much more
• That Was Then, This is Now
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• Questions I have had today
• It's better to regret something you HAVE done
• Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
• What pornos would have us believe
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• It was more than perfect understanding
• Such knowledge would do nothing more than haunt your dreams and frustrate your days
• What kind of year have YOU had?
• You know what? I've had it up to here with "Trix are for kids!" Give the rabbit a fucking bowl of cereal, you dick!
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• I was once young and had a home
• We know we have fallen because we know who we are
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Mother and I Would Like to Know
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• i didn't write this, but i wish i had
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• I had hoped our relationship would be a long and happy one, but I'll settle for short and exciting
• Nodes your Grandma would have liked
• I have dreadlocks and I don't know where the pot is
• He had something to say. He said it.
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• What I Didn't Learn in Church Last Sunday (and wish I had)
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• I know I have been dreaming
• Please sir, may I have some more?
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Everything you wanted to know about hamsters, and then some!
• Slip into something more comfortable
• Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• If you had swerved a little to the right, you'd have missed it
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• If the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail
• The people we have met in the last 5 years, & will we remember them in 10 more
• Cookies have more calories than TNT
• you have five minutes to admire the beauty in everything and then you die
• The good crew will know what its captain would do
• More than he was willing to give
• I Didn't Know
• You have had sex with all the people your partner has had sex with
• I have had enough of Survivor
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• I have pushed many humans I have shoved many more
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• Art has an actual purpose
• You stole what they would have given you
• Hello, my name is... Would you like to have sex?
• Terminating a pregnancy due to Down Syndrome
• blondes have more fun
• How do you know if you have a sinus infection?
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• She told me I looked like a Henry, and this is how she would know me
• know more darkness
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• Attention must be paid
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• If the only sexual organ you have is a penis then everything looks like a vagina
• I never thought I'd have something to say
• You know the little things about me that would sing in the silence
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• I didn't love him until I feared I would lose him. One does not love breathing.
• If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would pay!
• You should have killed me when you had the chance
• And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
• Advantages an invisible man would have in the world
• You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes
• Is There Something About Bangkok I Should Maybe Know About?
• The beginning was the end
• If she didn't love you she would kill you
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• What would get you to contribute even more E2 content? (e2poll)
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• Why couldn't it have been an action picture that had just started?
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• if you have had your midnights
• Keep your mouth shut until you have changed something
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
• Something I Can Never Have
• If we catapulted outlaws, only pawn shops would have guns
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• I must have been mental to have done something like that, eh?
• Without tears, the soul would never know a rainbow
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• I woke up searching for something that I didn't find
• if you had it as an option, would you take it?
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• What I would do If I knew what was good for me
• All the terrible disadvantages an invisible man would have in the world

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