Could have been Quote by Eric Mangini

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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…

— David McCullough

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

— Jodi Picoult

And everything would be different, different.

— Ismail Kadaré

I just expected things to be different.. I wonder why things didn't turn out the way I thought it would..

— Jazzy

I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.

— Frank McCourt

A change had to happened whereby it had to change within ourselves

— Ritu

The life setting had changed, but the rest was all too familiar.

— Paritoshik Sharma

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

— Alice Munro

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

— Jane Austen

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all…

— Sarah Dessen

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was…

— William Jackson