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 the money I would get lost. God knows I have the time.
• If it had been able to, the light would have smiled
• If we had a more developed tailbone, would we wag our tail?
• She didn't know what outside was anymore.
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• The more you promote something, the less of it you have
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• we didn't know then that we were making memories
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• I would a thousand times rather have had a simple cheap sandwich with a friend
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• if I was doing it for compliments I would have stopped a lot sooner
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• Would you like to know more?
• She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• 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.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• I would have cooled this if you had written it
• I would have leapt at the innuendo you had strewn at my feet.
• If you didn't have free will, would you know it?
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• if I had known then what I know now
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• I would have attempted to draw her if she had stayed that way.
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
• Don Quixote had his windmills, I have my helicopters
• i did that on purpose. i didn't have to miss.
• Please sir, may I have some more?
• For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
• He had something to say. He said it.
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• I would like to have emotions
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• If you're not sure whether or not you've been had, then you've already been had.
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• If the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail
• When a boy comes over, always have something baking
• I would have liked thunder when she left
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• you would have been
• Keep your mouth shut until you have changed something
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• I didn't know how to keep it but I couldn't throw it away.
• I didn't want to know that
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• Attention must be paid
• I wish I had something worth hiding
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• Nobody paid any attention until white people started to speak out
• Did you know that Mark Twain had a brother
• All the terrible disadvantages an invisible man would have in the world
• I lived in interesting times, came to the attention of those in power, and found what I was looking for.
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• Prices should have no more than 2 significant digits
• Things grow, no matter how much attention they’re paid
• Signs that you or someone you know may have a problem with drugs or alcohol
• some boys need a little more attention
• If we catapulted outlaws, only pawn shops would have guns
• Something that may have changed my life...
• Things that would have seemed unbelievable about 11 years ago
• I have dreadlocks and I don't know where the pot is
• Art has an actual purpose
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• In the Beginning was the Command Line
• The "How many partners have you had" question
• Questions I have had today
• if you had it as an option, would you take it?
• If I had the nerve, I would ask you
• i didn't write this, but i wish i had
• I have had enough of Survivor
• Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• I Know What You Had For Breakfast
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• if you have had your midnights
• He had a life before he met you, you know
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• You should have killed me when you had the chance
• and then, one morning, I realised I had been an adult for a while
• If this were in person, I would have kissed her now
• And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
• Nodes your Grandma would have liked
• If the only sexual organ you have is a penis then everything looks like a vagina
• Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
• Advantages an invisible man would have in the world
• You're not alive until you have something to lose
• Something I Can Never Have
• The beginning was the end
• I know I have been dreaming
• I have more stories about trains for you
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• I never thought I'd have something to say
• At least I have something to show for my awkward days
• Is it possible to miss something you have never experienced?
• You stole what they would have given you
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• I have never felt more alive
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• Hello, my name is... Would you like to have sex?
• What pornos would have us believe
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• Terminating a pregnancy due to Down Syndrome
• You are never dedicated to something in which you have complete confidence
• To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• In the Beginning was Rock n Roll
• I'm sorry, I didn't realize God was on campus today
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• What Darwin Didn't Know
• I knocked on the massive door, and came one step closer to knowing what I didn't know before.
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• if you buy into the wizard's bullshit, soon you're all standing waist-deep in things you didn't even know could exist and no one has any clue how to stop him
• Karl Marx must have had a lousy job
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• Why couldn't it have been an action picture that had just started?
• If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would pay!
• You have had sex with all the people your partner has had sex with
• If I didn't ask, I'd never know (how much you hate me)
• They didn't have the heart
• What I Didn't Learn in Church Last Sunday (and wish I had)
• If you had swerved a little to the right, you'd have missed it
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
• Why I didn't get my driver's license until I was 18
• 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!
• How does the Military Selective Service Act apply to individuals who have had a sex change?
• 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 you had to invent a language with no more than one hundred words
• When I was young Time had no wings
• We have had enough of your beige
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• I didn't know what to say
• If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh, my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic.
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• I was once young and had a home
• You had to pretend success was fucked
• If you were team captain in a pick-up game of baseball and had Jesus Christ on your team, what position would you play him?
• At least I didn't have to pay...
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• A girl I know had her jaw wired shut, and she vomited.
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• I Didn't Know
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• What kind of year have YOU had?
• It was a dark and stormy night. I had taken a creative writing class.
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• It's better to regret something you HAVE done
• If she didn't love you she would kill you
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.

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