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• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• Every time I fall, I fall a little bit harder, a little bit further, I fall right back onto you
• I'd love to go back to the late 80's and tell them about our time
• I got your back but you're best to watch your front
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• 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
• you're wasting time
• Losing your mind a little each time
• i want to show you that anything is possible. i wish you would believe me.
• Too little time to do anything, too much time to do nothing
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• You're going home in the back of an ambulance
• as you get older, a lot falls away. but i am not here to tell you not to worry. i am here to give you tools.
• You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
• I want my Forest of Eriador back please
• When you're little, mom and dad are superheroes
• Come back safe; we don't want any dead heroes in this family
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• Mean Time Between Failures
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• Bye Don, you were nothing but a waste of time
• Human beings will believe anything
• If I tell you, ye will not believe: And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.
• I want to believe
• Someday my life will be interesting, and I will come back and tell you about it then
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
• I won't tell you the real reason why I hate you, but I'll tell you another which is just as good
• You want to reassure her, but you don't know where to start
• he did not look back. he walked slowly. he might stop at any time.
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• like you're blind but still can see
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• Your earthquake generator is a seismic failure, Dr. Destruction! Mind if I shake things up?
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• 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.
• You can never become anything if you're not good at math
• We'd kill him, but it probably wouldn't solve anything
• I don't believe in anything
• Back to Work in the Time of Covid?
• she wants to believe
• I don't want to go back to work
• Why faster than light implies back in time
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
• I wouldn't hurt a fly, but you're not a fly
• Information doesn't want to be anything
• Hot pursuit
• You can do anything you want to, as long as it's not important
• Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• I want my brother back
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• you can use a lot of words and ideas to try to hide it, but you're always making a choice between love and hate
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• If you want to get to heaven, you got to raise a little hell.
• I can share anything with you, and you don't mind
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
• Every time I look at this picture, I feel a little more in love
• I've given up believing in anything but coffee and fishnet stockings
• America's social security is anything but secure
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• Come Back Little Sheba! (e2poll)
• Melinda goes back in time and I get to watch
• I know that all the cannabis activists would like you to believe differently but
• In the Fifties, a visitor from Great Britain to New York City notices a young Black woman driving a limousine. A portly middle-aged man, race undetermined, is in the back. Tell her story.
• I might not believe in God, but I sure as hell believe in the power of prayer
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• Little Kids Are Stupid & Believe Really Obvious Lies
• Creating a password to convince yourself you have traveled back in time
• I don't want to wear your skin, but I will if I catch you!
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• Everyone is here, but you're nowhere near
• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• The Lord of the Rings 1/2: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Middle-earth But Were Afraid to Produce
• I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
• 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
• Not too sentimental, but I want you to know
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• Looking back from time to time, her tears falling fast
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• Never point a gun at anything you don't want to kill
• I love you, but I dare not tell you.
• I don't go out of my way to believe in anything
• Help wanted. No previous experience necessary. Martyrdom not required but highly suggested.
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• 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
• The music in my head is too loud to think about anything but you
• no island, but you're not a big happy archipelago either
• the world's big enough, but how about your mind?
• I want silence, but wait for the phone to ring
• it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
• Those pajamas just make me want to give you a great big full bodied bear hug flying tackle of cuddle doom
• I just want to fix all the broken little humans
• Little Voice
• You think of Everything while saving your little brother from certain doom
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• I am a little concerned about my state of mind
• To better imagine the limits of the dried-up Martian sea, little Tatiana found it helpful to shape in her mind a great sinuous contour binding each sad, stranded boat to its neighbor
• If you want lonely I will give you white water flapping against a little boat
• If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear free speech.
• If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear government censorship.
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• 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.
• Looking forward to the back of my mind
• I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
• I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
• If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you?
• I want to reach my hand into the dark and feel what reaches back
• The monster stares back at me. I'm still young enough to believe that, with the right shoes, I can outrun it.
• It's a beautiful day, but the smog's back
• If I could turn back time
• When I went back in time to kill you
• Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
• Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining
• Not too far back in time
• You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
• If we ran this back an infinite number of times across infinite existences our souls would still never connect, so don't regret.
• Please, for the love of everything that is holy on this Earth. I just want the cold back.
• Let me fall until I believe, you're more than the leaves
• It is at that moment, I believe, that Sylvester finds his true voice
• but with words we can create anything
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe
• Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free.
• Give it back or I bite the little blue man
• If you don't take the time to look, you won't see anything.
• Ads from the back page of the Village Voice
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• Do I want anything?
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• Time flies but aeroplanes crash
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• Some people want to never feel anything bad, and call that happiness
• You say you love; but with a voice
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)
• Everything you ever wanted to know about theatre tech, but were afraid to ask
• You're not gonna do anything stupid are ya??
• Being a dickhead
• I want to watch pornography, but my pornograph is broken
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
• You suckers still fucking node, but your noding wisdom. My bad.
• It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream
• I wanted to show you something, but the verb sucked
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Little depth but lots of skin and penis
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• love me less, but, love me for a long time...!
• Not her voice, but the way her voice changes,
• Here in the dark, nothing is real but time
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• But I don't want to pay for the obese smoking couch potato
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• Mind racing, a while back
• If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• I always imagine those surrounded by time, but I walk on top of it.
• 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

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