Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "they were a dear, old comfortable couple, who took on their roles because they had to"

• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• They hate us because we're wonderful
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• 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.
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• 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.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• The economy has hit everyone hard. Well, everyone who hasn't lost track of how many houses they own, anyhow.
• They leap just because they can, out of joy
• Who are "they" anyway?
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• Or were they chords of sun?
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
• Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
• They Were Eleven
• Good thing they were just typewriters
• To those who know who they are
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• 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 hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• you will not keep the attention of plebeians, they only listen with their eyes
• Chipirones en su tinta
• The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
• First They Took Away Napster
• Drivers who think they are Neo
• How would you like it if they took your subculture and made it a theme night?
• More of The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister
• I told you they were nuts
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• I was into them after they were hip
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator
• Of course, they were wrong
• 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.
• They Had No Poet
• They had been expecting me
• Buying things just because they have cool packaging
• They took my job. They took my hands.
• On the Air Because They Care
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• George W. Bush gave the Taliban $43 million in May 2001 because they banned all drugs
• The four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when
• They who monitor the Internet
• Things never were what they used to be
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• Before they were famous
• In the dream he laughs and says, You thought they were graceful on the ground
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• While they were revolting, we grew nostalgic
• 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!
• Women who don't realize they're pregnant until they give birth
• Before they were the Science Fiction Greats
• The Story of Two Sisters Who Were Jealous of Their Younger Sister
• They were looking for God but found religion instead
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• Let's Pretend They Were Red
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• just because they never bothered to really do
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• Because, you think, Maybe They Are Delicious.
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it
• cat haters
• Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers--Who They Were
• play dumb
• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• Treating registers as if they were variables
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• The Fun They Had
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• Guys who don't tell you they have a girlfriend
• Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• They did so because they believed they could.
• Now your songs mean what they were supposed to from the beginning
• They had built the Unrecordable Sculpture again last night
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• Girls who tell you they have a boyfriend
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Keeping beer cold in the Old West
• For anybody who thinks they need to see a psychiatrist
• Old men never die, they just spout poetry
• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• The reason people go to war is because they don't understand the feelings of others.
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.
• They hate me because I'm beautiful
• They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
• When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Fragments of the world are falling away, and we're tripping over the holes they leave behind
• People who think they have to double-click everything
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• and they were delighted and eager to go on with tireless curiosity
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• and they were as flowers in a fire
• There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• and it gets lonely in the rain while they wait for their hook-up
• They Shall Beat Their Plowshares Into Swords
• 5 Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Literally Make You Go Insane (Because They Blew Your Mind)
• Because they are clowns, that doesn't mean they aren't dangerous. And being dangerous doesn't mean they aren't clowns.
• I didn’t know why it took girls so long to do their makeup until someone showed me how to dismantle the patriarchy with an allen wrench and a roast chicken ballotine.
• I who put thorns on the briars and gave insects their sting
• Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• I bet you they won't play this song on the radio
• i hope there are those in this world who know what a gift it is to have anyone that knows the whole of their heart
• Tricks girls use to look like they swallow
• They all lived happily ever after
• People who carp about their jobs
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• I Had No Time to Hate, Because
• They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended!
• What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• girls who like to see their grandmother fight
• they
• They Might Be Giants
• They killed our Lord
• The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• Oh my god! They killed Kenny!
• They danced with fire claws
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• WARNING: Noders May Not Be What They Seem to Be
• The monkey children were everywhere back then. Their fedoras littered the roads.
• She had incongruity for breakfast because she felt like it
• Their dreams were scrawny stray dogs
• The jongleurs for once in their lives were winning a battle (well, for themselves at least)
• And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks
• Cryonic companies who will freeze you if you get in the way of their plans for world domination

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