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"

• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• I would have cooled this if you had written it
• She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• 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.
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• that starfish that you threw back in the sea was already dead and the parent seagull had nothing to take to the newly hatched chicks who then starved
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• Would you like to know more?
• The more you promote something, the less of it you have
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• She didn't know what outside was anymore.
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• we didn't know then that we were making memories
• If you didn't have free will, would you know it?
• 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 we had a more developed tailbone, would we wag our tail?
• I would have leapt at the innuendo you had strewn at my feet.
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• If it had been able to, the light would have smiled
• I would have attempted to draw her if she had stayed that way.
• 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
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• For one thing, he was sure his granny would never have used smack.
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• if I had known then what I know now
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• Would ye have a young Virgin of fifteen Years
• He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
• beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
• Without tears, the soul would never know a rainbow
• If I didn't ask, I'd never know (how much you hate me)
• if you had it as an option, would you take it?
• Things that would have seemed unbelievable about 11 years ago
• Americans have more than 40 words for boobies
• Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
• Is There Something About Bangkok I Should Maybe Know About?
• I still miss you, now and then. You'll never know.
• In the Beginning was the Command Line
• i didn't write this, but i wish i had
• More than a mouthful is a waste
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• more sure of all I thought was true
• You're not alive until you have something to lose
• When a boy comes over, always have something baking
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• We did not know it was a war
• It was more than perfect understanding
• Why couldn't it have been an action picture that had just started?
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• It's better to regret something you HAVE done
• it was true then
• You know the little things about me that would sing in the silence
• Faith Know More
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• Keep your mouth shut until you have changed something
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• If I was beautiful, I'd know it
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• Attention has been paid
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• 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.
• Would you be more of a Jekyll or a Hyde?
• Signs that you or someone you know may have a problem with drugs or alcohol
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• he would have laughed
• Nobody paid any attention until white people started to speak out
• You had to pretend success was fucked
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• I have never felt more alive
• you would have been
• At least I have something to show for my awkward days
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• 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
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• What I Didn't Learn in Church Last Sunday (and wish I had)
• I Didn't Know
• I wish I had something worth hiding
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• that pain was something I needed, and probably did to myself
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• I have to firmly hold onto a belief that everyone in the world has shed tears over something beautiful
• all that time, all those threads, weaving through something that must have been far too confusing to enjoy
• The More You Know
• I only leave the door open because I know that no one would dare to come in.
• Slip into something more comfortable
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• What pornos would have us believe
• I would have killed for a sexual thought
• he would have cried
• Would you know if you were insane?
• I knocked on the massive door, and came one step closer to knowing what I didn't know before.
• We have had enough of your beige
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• What would get you to contribute even more E2 content? (e2poll)
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• I would kill you, but I have work to do. Fuck off.
• 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 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
• More than he was willing to give
• When I was young Time had no wings
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• I might have expected that the mushrooms would worship you
• I have to get up early and do laundry so I can wear something nice to the weirdo sex club
• Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today.
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• If she didn't love you she would kill you
• I didn't know how to keep it but I couldn't throw it away.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I have more stories about trains for you
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• I have dreadlocks and I don't know where the pot is
• That Was Then, This is Now
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• The people we have met in the last 5 years, & will we remember them in 10 more
• Cookies have more calories than TNT
• If it was still then-
• I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• I have pushed many humans I have shoved many more
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• how many people have something akin to PANDAS?
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• I know that all the cannabis activists would like you to believe differently but
• The more I learn about photography the less I want to know
• I woke up searching for something that I didn't find
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• Something that may have changed my life...
• Terminating a pregnancy due to Down Syndrome
• blondes have more fun
• Would you rather have a matrimony profile?
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• How to know if something is worth doing
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• I was once young and had a home
• Hello, my name is... Would you like to have sex?
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• I know something about love
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• The "How many partners have you had" question
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• If you had to invent a language with no more than one hundred words
• We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.

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