All Quotes

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.
‐‐ Lizzy Caplan

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
‐‐ John Cleveland

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.
‐‐ Duff Green

Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.
‐‐ Ernst Zundel

Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
‐‐ Brock Yates

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.
‐‐ Edward James Olmos

Had I guessed the trouble my name was going to cause a lot of people on the other side of the world, I would have changed it to something easier when I began writing books.
‐‐ Ngaio Marsh

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
‐‐ Jimmy Chamberlin

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
‐‐ Chico Buarque

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson

Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.
‐‐ Robert Englund

Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.
‐‐ John Burnham Schwartz

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.
‐‐ Amisha Patel

Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom I now counted as my friends would have otherwise passed by, invisible.
‐‐ Tim Cope

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.
‐‐ Richard Branson

Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
‐‐ Bill Richardson

Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
‐‐ Angela Davis

Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'
‐‐ Bill Rancic

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
‐‐ Herbert Croly

Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
‐‐ Rory Kinnear

Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
‐‐ Carole King

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
‐‐ John Perkins

Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.
‐‐ Ivica Dacic

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would be reading from hand-copied scrolls.
‐‐ Rodney Stark

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
‐‐ Isaac Mayer Wise

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
‐‐ Ralph Ellison

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.
‐‐ Jim Gerlach

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
‐‐ Bob Schieffer

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
‐‐ Sally Field

Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.
‐‐ Terry Sanford

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.
‐‐ Andrew Marvell

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.
‐‐ Jermaine Jackson

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
‐‐ Robert Falcon Scott

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
‐‐ Francois Fenelon

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
‐‐ Thomas Traherne