Findings:

• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• When I look around, I see so much pain that mirrors my own
• Oh, look at me, I'm so drunk
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• Been Brown So Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature
• one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
• Can you see the tension piling on me in waves? Look into my eyes.
• 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.
• You haven't seen it and you don't understand. I have malice. I have cruelty. The little fire that's always been inside me isn't so little anymore.
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• Every time I see a dead fish that isn't, I think of you. Happiness keeps washing over me like a wave. What do I do with it all?
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Perhaps pain will stop me where good sense and virtue have failed
• the smallest number that looks prime but isn't
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• I look around and see only sandals. Looking up I find myself in the presence of Gods.
• Everything Quest: You kids stop your fighting or I will turn this car around so help me God
• please come stay with me in the forest so at least i have one person with whom i have no secrets
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• There is no god but God
• "Excuse me, but could you drop your large backpack somewhere else, please?" A (almost) christmas nodermeet in the East End
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• It isn’t fun to hide. But it will protect you from lightning.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• It hasn't been so long, but
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• no island, but you're not a big happy archipelago either
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• You don't know me, but someday you will
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• But beauteous fields lie just before me
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• I like the city, but the city doesn't like me
• So runs my dream; but what am I?
• I would've taken an axe to it, but I'm pretty sure the dryad would have pulverized me
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff
• Maybe I'm naive but this type of website bugs me
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• Every programmer is incompetent but me.
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
• we ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• No, but I'll have a beer
• her arms around me
• I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• But I'm a good person! Yeah great you wanna help me with this or what?
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• But what's stopping me from staring at the stars now?
• Feminism, as influenced by the world around me
• Swooping through the almost silent night with no hands on your handlebars but it's OK
• your fake name is not for everyone but good enough for me
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• I would love for you to come to me with Christmas lights around your head, late night like a ghost
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• Sadness isn't sadness, but happiness in a black jacket
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• Close, but no cigar
• But they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth?
• Give me chastity and continency, but not yet
• Neutron-bomb landscape, lights gleaming but no sign of humanity
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• No Snakes, but We’ve Got a Lot of Folks Looking
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• There is no dream but this.
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• no ideas but in things
• In the city, silence is no longer silence but the memory of a noise
• You see them driving around, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• and but so
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• But this isn't a Cyberpunk story
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• Your bed is no longer here, but the windows are
• Help wanted. No previous experience necessary. Martyrdom not required but highly suggested.
• I swear I just came here for a sandwich, but do you remember me?
• You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
• Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen.
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• i might look like a grown person, but i'm just a tiny confused scientist
• No model is true, but some models are useful
• it made me sick but kept me warm
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• Nobody for me but you
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• like you're blind but still can see
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Scrabble words with a Q but no U
• Mull around in my mind for a while and you'll find so many treasure troves and so many graveyards that you won't be able to tell the difference between them
• I love you but you are not here, oh how my poor heart aches with angst
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• You know to me she's but a fetish
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• Look around you
• Look around for the people doing the good work, follow their lead, stay calm.
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• Tanks But No Tanks
• All around me
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• Coyote pups running around in the tea-colored rain, and the gypsy's kids hypnotized me.
• You say you love; but with a voice
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• We don't look for trouble but if it comes we don't run
• I felt the heat and cold of the microwave chatter in the air around me
• I've lost my memory but I have ink, so.
• The body's alive, but no head. I'm having a lot of trouble accepting it.
• Girls possess me but they're never mine.
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• I know it's boring to go on about it, it bores me to sleep, but what the hell, why doesn't it fade
• In the world I see, you're stalking elk through the forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center
• So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
• A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
• We had no bait but our tongues
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• God Sees The Truth, but Waits
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• love me less, but, love me for a long time...!
• Or he'll just kick me in the face and scream abstract noises and dance around outside in his underwear and have sex with the neighbor's dog and try to fly by jumping off the toilet
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• She Looks Good, but She Has an Ugly Heart
• But it isn't
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
• The tweakers are all around me, demanding tacos and Sudafed
• As Guan Yu would surrender to the Han, but not to Cao Cao, I will surrender to you, but not to your desire to control me.
• what she's building now, it isn't much, but it's hers
• But alas, I have no badger to offer you
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• She might not need me. But then again she might.
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• If you see her around.

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