Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "they were high up in their ivory towers thinking they could see everything"

• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• 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 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
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• Treating registers as if they were variables
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• Before they were the Science Fiction Greats
• They did so because they believed they could.
• If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• The Ten Commandments revised
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• In the dream he laughs and says, You thought they were graceful on the ground
• Fragments of the world are falling away, and we're tripping over the holes they leave behind
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• But what are they really thinking?
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Good thing they were just typewriters
• They have a trendy name for every different kind of fucked up.
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• For anybody who thinks they need to see a psychiatrist
• The Clothes They Stood Up In
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• They Shall Beat Their Plowshares Into Swords
• 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
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Before they were famous
• Of course, they were wrong
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• I was into them after they were hip
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• 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 four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• Now your songs mean what they were supposed to from the beginning
• 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.
• They were looking for God but found religion instead
• Things never were what they used to be
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• and they were as flowers in a fire
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Let's Pretend They Were Red
• They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• 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.
• and it gets lonely in the rain while they wait for their hook-up
• I told you they were nuts
• Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers--Who They Were
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• Beings from space: What could they want?
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• Or were they chords of sun?
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• You cannot pick up the pieces, unless they all fall to the floor
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad
• "for the last time: Up here they don't wear Lederhosen!": A christmassy eurotrash nodermeet.
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
• They Were Eleven
• Three Golden-Tongued Knights, Whom No One Could Refuse Whatsoever They Might Ask
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• they see in me a man that is empty, in need of love. that will not hurt them.
• They looked up at their moon and saw a peculiar bright spot
• from where I stand I can see they have already won
• They hate us because we're wonderful
• I have to check and see if they wear panties
• While they were revolting, we grew nostalgic
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• As strangers they could speak, and it lifted the rain
• When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
• They grow up. No one told me.
• I joined the Army in order to die, and they sent me where I could die
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• 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.
• 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.
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• They can see that you're missing something inside
• and they were delighted and eager to go on with tireless curiosity
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
• you will not keep the attention of plebeians, they only listen with their eyes
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• They could have saved Kevin
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• they
• What Have They Done to the Rain?
• WARNING: Noders May Not Be What They Seem to Be
• Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• They all lived happily ever after
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• What Italian guys are really talking about when they say "Ey Oh"
• The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• They leap just because they can, out of joy
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended!
• I bet you they won't play this song on the radio
• cat haters
• They Live
• Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard
• What Have They Done to the Rain
• If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes
• the stuff they keep out of the papers, and off the TV, for your own damn good
• If you could see me cry
• "The Americans in their wisdom have taken the heads off the pictures, enlarged them and superimposed them with the heads of animals and then strung them up all over the walls of the interrogation room," he said
• Their dreams were scrawny stray dogs
• In the darkness, where we could barely see
• The stories I could tell you, if you only were here to hear
• They Might Be Giants
• Oh my god! They killed Kenny!
• They killed our Lord
• Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
• Hit by the realization that they are all getting to know you nodes
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• So that's what they call it nowadays?
• All my friends are nonconformists. They all dress like me.
• If they put you in a copy machine, an ass would come out
• Anonymous Men Think They Can Talk To Me
• play dumb
• People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
• When they come they'll eat the fat ones first
• Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
• It's hard to know what to say when a friend's parent they always hated suddenly dies
• Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
• Honk if your horn is broken: Where do they get these stupid stickers?
• They have potential, if they only applied themselves
• Her smile could light up a three-story building
• Tricks girls use to look like they swallow
• The jongleurs for once in their lives were winning a battle (well, for themselves at least)
• I'd like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away
• burning stars lit up their hair
• I could grow up to become the soft ineffectual synthesis of untold compromises that I am today
• Farther than I could see
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• They danced with fire claws

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