Findings:

• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• Why is it we desire that which we can never attain?
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• Girls possess me but they're never mine.
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• always morning, but never breakfast
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• forever falling, but never losing altitude
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• Skim this life but never live
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
• It never rains but it pours
• we can give up, but the world never will
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• Forever blue, but never black
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• executed but never exposed
• attained (user)
• One day, E2 will attain sentience. And I'll be there to see it.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• But who codes the coders?
• butt
• butt naked
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• but
• butt set
• Mr. Butts
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• There is no god but God
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• I want to watch pornography, but my pornograph is broken
• Every Which Way but Loose
• separate but equal
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Brexit, Pursued by a Bear (e2poll)
• Butt hinge
• Butt shaft
• Butt weld
• Water butt
• We have nothing to fear but fear itself
• But thanks for playing
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
• butt log
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• But my computer really IS possessed
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• Butted mail
• The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
• it's not what you node, but how you node
• cigarette butt
• How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
• Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
• old chestnut: all but two
• answer: all but two
• Not just Everything, but INFINITE TURBO EVERYTHING HAPPY FISH
• terrified but hopeful
• Streets thick with wild chaos and cigarette butts
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• anti-abortion but pro-choice
• Straight but not Narrow
• I like electronic music, but I am not a raver.
• The odds are good, but the goods are odd
• Scrabble words with a Q but no U
• Monkey Butt!
• butt breath
• I'm not anorexic, but I'm working on it
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
• Something Childish, but Very Natural
• Genuine but Insignificant Cause
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• butts ARE litter
• You may think I'm lying, but it's true
• But what are they really thinking?
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• But I digress
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• BQN: But, one for all?
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Sexist jokes
• Yard Butt
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Not really by the rules, but...
• No, but I'll have a beer
• Free but worthless shares
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• I'm not pregnant, but thanks for asking
• Not atheist, but what then?
• Longing for brief, but ever unattainable moment of... lucid thought?
• equal but opposite
• Don't litter, but go ahead and throw your cigarette butt on the ground
• Maybe I'm naive but this type of website bugs me
• Fell, But Tried
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• I love you but you are not here, oh how my poor heart aches with angst
• but aren't we all
• Cat Butt
• Can't nothin' fail but a try
• What to do if you earn a lot but hate your job
• He thinks I don't, but I do
• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
• We all love movies and books about us owning ourselves
• But who nodes the noders?
• Nothing but a Wednesday night
• I'm not a rocket scientist, but
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• I don't want to wear your skin, but I will if I catch you!
• General Butt Naked
• I am capable of poetic language, but not always of poetry
• I'm gay, but I'm not sure it's genetic
• Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription
• It hasn't been so long, but
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• Push butt: Rub hands under arm
• It did not but, I think.. it will spill hope
• I love my apartment but hate the management.
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• We'd kill him, but it probably wouldn't solve anything
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• History is not just for the past, but for the future
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• butt rot
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• Love is but a Fleeing Spec of Emotion
• The nothin' but coal for you, geek e2 westside holiday gathering and lan party
• Talking like a pirate is fun but annoys people
• Snowy reception on some channels but not on others
• How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• Keep doing it, but don't call it that
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• Musical Terms Applying to Percussion that Sound Dirty But Really Aren't
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• My Mother and I Love Your Butt

If you Log in you could create a "pursued but never attained" node. If you don't already have an account, you can register here.