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What would I have done if my coya had been captured or killed? My mate, Sharone. The other half of everything I am. What would I have done? — Lora Leigh

What would my life, have been like, if I hadn't been put up for adoption? Who would my parents have been then? Or my parent, my mother? — T. Scott McLeod

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player. — Brad Paisley

Collin! What a gorgeous name. Then again his name could have been Cracker Jack and I would have thought it was just as wonderful. — Nicole Gulla

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart. — Henry Cisneros

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years. — Peter Mayle

It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it. — M.F. Moonzajer

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year. — Edwin Land

I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did. — Jessica Hahn

I would not change my life for anything. I have been through too much. I have learned too much. Now I know what I am made of. — Marlo Donato Parmelee

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness! — Kurt Vonnegut

If you hadn't been so busy stressing about what people think of you, you would have noticed all of this. — Allyson Valentine

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out. — Rush Limbaugh

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened. — Christine Lagarde

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress. — Paul Sorvino

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do. — Winnie Holzman

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. — Juliet Stevenson

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done. — Michael Bennett

Tell me now, won't you ever wonder what it would have been like to be with someone else? — Rainbow Rowell

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been. — Samuel Alito

If only 50 or more people were doing for the country what I have been doing, there would not be a pay freeze or a balance of payments problem. — Robert Maxwell

What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and without consequence? * — Jeff VanderMeer

Our lives would have been a hell-of-a-lot better, had we known how to survive with what we have in excess. — Anu Lal

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done. — Sara Sheridan

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write. — Gustave Flaubert

It was you, you who brought me the pardon. Pee on me, won't you. It would be like benediction. O, what a sleepwalker I have been! — Henry Miller

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for. — Daley Thompson

Part of what you have to figure out in this life is, Who would I be if I hadn't been frightened? What hurt me, and what would I be if it hadn't? Next — Patricia Lockwood

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision. — Kobe Bryant

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal. — Jack Kerouac

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made. — David Beckham

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too. — Margaret Anderson

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. — Johnny Vegas

'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often. — Martin Freeman

Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had. — Preeti Shenoy

What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me? — Marilyn Monroe

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different. — David McCullough

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely. — Gordon Ramsay

After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood. — Anneli Rufus

I did what any loving, loyal daughter would have done who had been raised on a diet of Hercules movies. — Jeffrey Eugenides

What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body? — Frances Hardinge

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted. — Edmund White

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got. — Scarlett Thomas

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all? — John Irving

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do. — Ron Shock

What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools? — Ogwo David Emenike

What a thing it would have been to see her take a breath. — Dennis Mahoney

At any other time, we would have been sheep in the company of wolves. But now, we have what people might call "presence". — Susan Ee

If human beings were made in such a way that we believed only what is true, sane people would have been in the minority. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. — Lily Tomlin

What would I have been if not for perestroika? An engineer with a pathetic salary. — Svetlana Alexievich

Our role models today
60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be — Prince Ea

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up. — Steven Wright

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles. — Suzy Amis

I would adore to make up with the United States of America ... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend? — Sukarno

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been. — Audrey Hepburn

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still - it would have been nice to see Easy try. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer. I would put my sisters. — Kate Atkinson

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up. — Terry Pratchett

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film. — Joel Edgerton

No matter how much deposit you have got, if it is not been filled back and is only being spent, you guess what would happen, you will soon deplete it. — Sunday Adelaja

The worst part is knowing what would have been. — Stephenie Meyer

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear. — Ray Charles

You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life. — Ethan Hawke

It is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too — Charles Dickens

I don't want you running anymore, Sky. What would have happened if you would have been by yourself? You run too much, — Colleen Hoover

Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me? — Joe Frazier

Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him. — Alex Ebert

If you keep in secret what would have been used to help you, you will never be helped! Your gifts make way for you to lead; use them well! — Israelmore Ayivor

Tell me something Micah, If you found a naked woman tied to your bed what would you think? That I have been a very good boy in a pass life. — Maya Banks

...and who's to say what would have been for the best? You only found out afterwards, when it was too late. — Julian Barnes

True, he didn't know what his Dad would have been like if he hadn't been in Vietnam, — Nina Post

I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong. — Curtis Sittenfeld

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through. — Marie Osmond

Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all — T. S. Eliot

I am forever grateful for not knowing - What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy. — Erica Goros

What I accomplished definitely wasn't achieved by myself. Without others, none of this would have been possible. — Emmitt Smith

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it. — Michael Ondaatje

It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it. — Tom Robbins

I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument. — Frank Auerbach

If I'd spoken, even just one word, I would have never been able to hold back what I feel for you. You would have run. — Melissa Haag

Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear? — J.K. Rowling

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame. — John Lennon

What would my life have been without you? — Laura Barnett

I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Kugel set off, the wind in what would have been, some years ago, his hair. — Shalom Auslander

What will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived? — Margaret Mitchell

They were mirrors to each other. Gwinvere Kirena would have been perfect for him - if he could love what he saw in the mirror. — Brent Weeks

If more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead. — Neal Shusterman

For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use — Aristotle.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it. — George MacDonald

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened. — Allan Houston

What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been. — Klaus Barbie

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising. — Vivienne Westwood

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four. — Evelyn Keyes

What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine. — Diane Ackerman

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day. — Michael Robotham