Findings:
- Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
- you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
- thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
- Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
- People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
- The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
- They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
- they still come to me even though i don't come to them
- The reason people go to war is because they don't understand the feelings of others.
- Women who don't realize they're pregnant until they give birth
- Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
- Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
- When life gives you lemons, suck on them. Seriously, lemons taste awesome.
- people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
- Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
- some people are so poor, all they have is money
- And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
- Because they are clowns, that doesn't mean they aren't dangerous. And being dangerous doesn't mean they aren't clowns.
- Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
- They don't know what they're missing
- Guys who don't tell you they have a girlfriend
- No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
- Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
- telling people what they don't need to know
- What they don't know can't hurt them
- they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
- People who think they have to double-click everything
- They did so because they believed they could.
- there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
- Dogs don't have souls, so it doesn't matter
- The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
- I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
- Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
- Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
- Eye contact at a distance
- Tell people they're beautiful and they will change the world
- People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
- Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
- I'm not going to simplify things just so they can fit inside your mind. You don't deserve that.
- They don't know what I've done
- from where I stand I can see they have already won
- They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
- I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
- People don't flail when they die
- When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
- They're just babies, they don't understand!
- no exact amounts since I have no idea how many people you feed
- I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
- To those who know who they are
- I've accepted the way it is and it doesn't hurt so much
- play dumb
- 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
- Honk if your horn is broken: Where do they get these stupid stickers?
- they does not know what it might be to live without them
- Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
- Which doesn’t sound so crazy when we put it that way
- Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it
- Dogs are for wimps who don't have the guts to bite people themselves
- We know we have fallen because we know who we are
- One of the dangers of necromancy is you don't really know who's on the other side or what they're going to give you in return.
- just because you don't doesn't mean you can't
- Living well is only the best revenge if they don't have a fuckable sibling
- 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
- I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
- Badgers? We ain't got no badgers. We don't need no badgers. I don't have to show you any stinking badgers!
- There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
- They don't get it. Let them suffer.
- If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
- And They Shall Know No Fear
- do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
- The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
- The difference between reply and reply to all
- I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
- I have dreadlocks and I don't know where the pot is
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Buying things just because they have cool packaging
- Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
- Kids that age think they know it all
- Ernie and Bert are not gay. They're puppets. They don't even have legs.
- What They Did To the Desert People
- The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
- Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people you no longer want in your life
- They don't touch me the same way
- They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
- People with suntans don't look healthy, they look ignorant
- If you don't know how to make a mu, you have no business measuring quantities that small.
- they don't know what they'd do without me
- If you don't know where you're going, any path will take you there
- "Of course humans aren't intelligent. They don't even have glurbleflukers. If you can't glurblefluke, you're not sentient."
- Girls who tell you they have a boyfriend
- Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
- We don't have time. Not like they do.
- I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
- Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
- why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
- most people don't know what they're talking about anyway
- People want what they cannot have
- Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
- People who have stared into the abyss know each other.
- I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
- You're the only one who doesn't know
- No, they are not stupid
- cat haters
- Children are people readers and they know when you are fiction
- They have no bones.
- people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
- But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
- Posting your life on Everything2 is a dumb idea if people know who you are in real life
- What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
- Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
- We left our dead where they lay and the sand preserved them
- Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
- You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
- Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
- I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
- My people, some of them, have run away to 4chan and have no XP.
- it's a pity we only appreciate some once they're gone, when they can no longer defend themselves
- 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.
- Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
- Just because I'm nice to her doesn't mean I want to fuck her
- They hate us because we're wonderful
- This is not me, doing this to you. I know it's wrong.
- Just because I say Happy Hanukkah doesn't mean I'm Jewish
- just because you've forgotten doesn't mean that you're forgiven
- On the Air Because They Care
- People who don't smoke will never die
- People who don't capitalize their I's
- Capitalize, please
- Don't meddle in that which you have no desire to understand
- If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear government censorship.
- (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 don't care. I like who I am because of it.
- I don't think we're old enough to know if we're alcoholics at our age
- They don't understand my tea
- Listen to me, because I am in the soapbox. This is the voice of the soapbox. I am calling to you. Do you hear the sounds of my soaply siren song? My syntactically sweet strumming along to sequential sequestrations of symmetrically snakey st
- I don't care if you're the customer, I still think you're wrong.
- They hate me because I'm beautiful
- Just because I like ballet it doesn't mean I'm a poof
- Because the gods that made them are gods no more
- Because, you think, Maybe They Are Delicious.
- just because they never bothered to really do
- George W. Bush gave the Taliban $43 million in May 2001 because they banned all drugs
- Just because she's nice to you doesn't mean she wants to fuck you
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
- We read your mail so you don't have to
- I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
- just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
- When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
- Because I still love her, because I know she still loves me.
- beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
- I only leave the door open because I know that no one would dare to come in.
- 5 Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Literally Make You Go Insane (Because They Blew Your Mind)
- Words that don't mean the same as they used to
- The fact that you don't understand this doesn't mean arse
- If my mom doesn't let me play the violin because it's gay then ...
- Just because you can make music doesn't mean that you should
- Just because a man is nice to pretty girls, it doesn't make him a nice man
- How to really brush your teeth (Yes, you have been doing it wrong)
- Just because you've ordered doesn't mean you can't look at the menu
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- Gays don't need us heteros to propagate gay stereotypes; they're doing just fine by themselves
- Just because I'm black doesn't mean I can rap
- so concerned with doing things the right way, we never learned how to understand
- If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear free speech.
- We're blind. We're mortal. We don't know what the hell we're doing.
- my religion doesn't have a name
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