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I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.
— Joyce Maynard
I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.
— Karen Essex
It was unlike anything I had ever known. I had no feeling, no pain.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.
— Stephen Fry
she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
— Peter Cullen
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
— Andrew Solomon
I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.
— Bear Grylls
If I had known I'd have a hot architect balls deep inside of me before the end of the weekend, I'd have made time for a pedicure.
— Kate Canterbary
I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all?
— Tom Robbins
Raj had known, of course; Raj had known who I really was for years.
— Seanan McGuire
If only i had known that the moment you think everything has ended, something new is beginning.
— Kyung-Sook Shin
Every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
— Adam Langer
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.
— Gordon Parks
That night on TV, I saw the tattoo I wished my life had warranted. If you have not known suffering, love me. A Russian murderer beat me to it.
— Jenny Offill
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
— Barbra Streisand
I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences.
— Deborah Cox
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
— Matt Taibbi
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
Although I had never known anything but poverty, I knew that no amount of wealth could diminish my shame." From: Caspian Diary
— J.M. Sandler
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
— Vladimir Nabokov
If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.
— Edwin D. Ferretti III
Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.
— Rabih Alameddine
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
— Albert Einstein
I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
— Bill Bryson
Via had warned me about lunch in middle school, so I guess I should have known it would be hard.
— R.J. Palacio
I tell her everything I wish I had ever known.
— Cristin Terrill
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
I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking.
— Jojo Moyes
It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
This-our love for each other-was the most sacred of things my hearts had ever known. And I was willing to do whatever it took to preserve it.
— Nely Cab
If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.
— Saul Leiter
I had know it and never known it.
— Margo Lanagan
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred ... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
— Paul Engle
Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would
— Corrie Ten Boom
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. — Banksy
anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. — Banksy
If i had known ... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it.
— Veronica Roth
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
— Earl Hamner Jr.
I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn't have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.
— Jojo Moyes
I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima
— Ernest Hemingway,
When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.
— Nancy Atherton
All that once I'd known, I had forgotten.
— Sebastian Faulks
There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him.
— Elizabeth Chadwick
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.
— John Glen
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
— Graham Greene
So often I have known, right there in the pulpit, even as I read the words, how far they fell short of any hopes I had for them.
— Marilynne Robinson
Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.
— Julie London
I felt a hard knot untangle in my chest. It was a relief, a worry that I had not known I had, dissolving like a soap bubble on pavement. We
— D.C. Lozar
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
— Ian McKellen
The life I had known scattered like the ashes of my wings, to be born again in the pure light of Abby's love.
— Ashlan Thomas
Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
— Albert Memmi
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
— Willa Cather
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
— Abbi Glines
I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.
— Grant Achatz
Never had I known a young girl so beautiful and at the same time so gentle and intelligent. Where were her men? Where had they failed?
— Charles Bukowski
If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.
— Anna Lee
I wish I had known him, but he was just another shadow outside my screen door and I already had a sufficiency of shadows in.
— Ray Bradbury
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
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
— Thomas Jefferson
Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Like many people who don't easily commit, I think I had a fear of being known; I was not sure there was anybody inside there.
— Jacqueline Bisset
Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be.
— Mahmoud Darwish
I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.
— Henry James
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
— Max Beerbohm
I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.
— Graham Moore
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.
— Stephen Colbert
Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.
— Ford Madox Ford
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
— Peter Capaldi
Contemplating leaving everything I had ever known of one ill-advised hour of passionate lunacy.
— Jane Harvey-Berrick
I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.
— Sherwood Anderson
I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.
— Aleck Bourne
I've always known that I had the happy facility of making enemies of any one I ever knew,
— Nathaniel Philbrick
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
— Lois Wyse
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
A fear unlike any he had ever known settled on his heart. 'Jesu, I have no breasts for milking.
— Jessica Trapp
During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.
— L. Frank Baum
My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.
— Helen Grant
The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
— Alice McDermott
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
I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart.
— Kristin Hannah
If I had known the world was ending, I'd have brought better books.
— The Walking Dead
I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
— Roger Zelazny