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?
- People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
- thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- they still come to me even though i don't come to them
- 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
- I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
- When life gives you lemons, suck on them. Seriously, lemons taste awesome.
- telling people what they don't need to know
- people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
- People who think they have to double-click everything
- there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
- 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!
- Guys who don't tell you they have a girlfriend
- No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
- They don't know what they're missing
- Because they are clowns, that doesn't mean they aren't dangerous. And being dangerous doesn't mean they aren't clowns.
- Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
- 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.
- They did so because they believed they could.
- 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
- Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
- Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
- They're just babies, they don't understand!
- And They Shall Know No Fear
- If you don't know how to make a mu, you have no business measuring quantities that small.
- "Of course humans aren't intelligent. They don't even have glurbleflukers. If you can't glurblefluke, you're not sentient."
- We know we have fallen because we know who we are
- We don't have time. Not like they do.
- People don't flail when they die
- The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
- They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
- Posting your life on Everything2 is a dumb idea if people know who you are in real life
- They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
- Dogs are for wimps who don't have the guts to bite people themselves
- no exact amounts since I have no idea how many people you feed
- they does not know what it might be to live without them
- I've accepted the way it is and it doesn't hurt so much
- But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
- people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
- 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
- Eye contact at a distance
- They don't know what I've done
- Buying things just because they have cool packaging
- Ernie and Bert are not gay. They're puppets. They don't even have legs.
- Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
- Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
- just because you don't doesn't mean you can't
- They don't touch me the same way
- People want what they cannot have
- There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
- Badgers? We ain't got no badgers. We don't need no badgers. I don't have to show you any stinking badgers!
- I'm not going to simplify things just so they can fit inside your mind. You don't deserve that.
- I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
- What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
- 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.
- You're the only one who doesn't know
- Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
- play dumb
- Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
- Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
- We left our dead where they lay and the sand preserved them
- The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
- I have dreadlocks and I don't know where the pot is
- Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it
- Which doesn’t sound so crazy when we put it that way
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Kids that age think they know it all
- 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
- Living well is only the best revenge if they don't have a fuckable sibling
- they don't know what they'd do without me
- Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people you no longer want in your life
- When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
- People with suntans don't look healthy, they look ignorant
- Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
- What They Did To the Desert People
- 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.
- 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.
- Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
- I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
- Girls who tell you they have a boyfriend
- Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
- If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
- If you don't know where you're going, any path will take you there
- I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
- They don't get it. Let them suffer.
- Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
- most people don't know what they're talking about anyway
- I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
- do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
- why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
- To those who know who they are
- People who have stared into the abyss know each other.
- No, they are not stupid
- cat haters
- They have no bones.
- 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.
- Children are people readers and they know when you are fiction
- Tell people they're beautiful and they will change the world
- it's a pity we only appreciate some once they're gone, when they can no longer defend themselves
- Honk if your horn is broken: Where do they get these stupid stickers?
- You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
- People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
- The difference between reply and reply to all
- from where I stand I can see they have already won
- My people, some of them, have run away to 4chan and have no XP.
- 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.
- 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?
- (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
- How to really brush your teeth (Yes, you have been doing it wrong)
- beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
- my religion doesn't have a name
- We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
- George W. Bush gave the Taliban $43 million in May 2001 because they banned all drugs
- They hate me because I'm beautiful
- Because the gods that made them are gods no more
- Don't meddle in that which you have no desire to understand
- Because, you think, Maybe They Are Delicious.
- 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
- just because you've forgotten doesn't mean that you're forgiven
- We read your mail so you don't have to
- I don't think we're old enough to know if we're alcoholics at our age
- mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
- just because i'm out on the balcony doesn't mean i'm about to jump
- People who don't capitalize their I's
- Just because you've ordered doesn't mean you can't look at the menu
- If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear government censorship.
- They hate us because we're wonderful
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- Just because she's nice to you doesn't mean she wants to fuck you
- Just because I'm nice to her doesn't mean I want to fuck her
- On the Air Because They Care
- I don't care if you're the customer, I still think you're wrong.
- People who don't smoke will never die
- 5 Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Literally Make You Go Insane (Because They Blew Your Mind)
- Capitalize, please
- Words that don't mean the same as they used to
- 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 only leave the door open because I know that no one would dare to come in.
- They don't understand my tea
- Because I still love her, because I know she still loves me.
- Just because I like ballet it doesn't mean I'm a poof
- The voting system doesn't work because I'm drunk and that fucks it up
- 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
- so concerned with doing things the right way, we never learned how to understand
- I don't care. I like who I am because of it.
- Just because a man is nice to pretty girls, it doesn't make him a nice man
- Gays don't need us heteros to propagate gay stereotypes; they're doing just fine by themselves
- just because they never bothered to really do
- Just because I'm black doesn't mean I can rap
- 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.
- The fact that you don't understand this doesn't mean arse
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