Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "their dreams, their hopes flickered in and out before they could be noticed"

• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• 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
• 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 try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• may their names be sung forever
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• How Eulenspiegel talked two hundred boys out of their shoes
• They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
• Expecting your wedding to be the happiest day of your life
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• you will not keep the attention of plebeians, they only listen with their eyes
• There's husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.
• Please inquire of past generations, and consider the things searched out by their fathers
• "By their very nature, negatives ought to be more abstract {than positives}."
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• They Shall Beat Their Plowshares Into Swords
• Paintings bulging out of their frames like the freaked-out spine-damage erections of accident victims
• Flushing out your enemies from their lair with bad rock music
• 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.
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• Their dreams were scrawny stray dogs
• Those who have abandoned their dreams will discourage yours
• The Ten Commandments revised
• The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Demons snatch unclaimed prayers out of the air to admire their gossamer wings
• 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
• Be nice to smokers: any cigarette can be their last
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• You see them driving around, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• 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.
• and it gets lonely in the rain while they wait for their hook-up
• 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.
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• I will ask them all their dreams
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• Inability to decide on what your morals and values should be
• Eat your dreams, before they get cold.
• This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• I am writing you at dawn, on a train headed west, a farewell letter to be mailed at the first transfer station, before I head off into parts unknown.
• They shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever
• if I could play god there'd be one less child abuser
• They will be lucky for you. Allah favors the compassionate.
• Six reasons -- er, four reasons -- why maybe there could be a (nontheistic) God
• It could be the last time you see me alive
• If I could be anything I'd be water and I'd be wild about it.
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling
• I worry that no matter how hard I pray, you'll always be just out of my reach
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• They will not be named!
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• It must be the Friday night before Valentine's Day.
• The sky will hold them. They will be an ocean apart.
• they does not know what it might be to live without them
• My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be
• taters haster be peelt an' boilt fore they kin be masht an' et
• It can be days before the vision passes and I see the world plainly again.
• How could anybody know how we got to be this way?
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• Be patient, you will get your patent. And they will pat you on the back.
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• We must remember them or they cease to be.
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" rule
• Before we dump the bodies, you guys wanna go to Hooters?
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
• They knew what our pain would be.
• Starving in the greenhouse
• Don't trust Elves; they may want to be your friends
• Things never were what they used to be
• WARNING: Noders May Not Be What They Seem to Be
• Could man be drunk for ever
• Nothing could possibly be more satisfactory!
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
• She could be a businesswoman
• a horse that's lost could be dreaming of the girl that's going to find him
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• nodeshells that could never be satisfactorily filled
• Before long the Goddess Tiamat through hip-hop you'll be facing
• Laugh now, because tomorrow I will be ten stories tall and I could just step on you if I want
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• Frontiers are not easy, nor are they meant to be
• It must be morning when she dreams.
• this entire endeavor could be thought of as a quest for your number
• You're not going to be happy until you put someone's eye out
• Imagine how the world would be if only wrecking balls could destroy flowers
• how loud to you have to be to put out a housefire with just your voice
• anyone could be your brand new love
• Could Be Anywhere
• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
• If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
• If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
• if you see a raven, don't throw stones; it could be me
• The best kind of bartender
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• Ground rush
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• play dumb
• you could be asking questions
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• Your e-mail client must be this secure before you may ride the internet
• I have a feeling it will be in my dreams
• They say the prettiest girls get to be angels
• You could be the Willow, I could be the Wind.
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• We Could Be Heroes: tes's Everything2 Heroes Quest
• They be killin' some hog over thar'.....
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• The woman had a carnivorous frenzy which could only be soothed by the succulent sirloin
• People of Earth: we could be heroes.
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• an invitation to be everything you never thought you could be
• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
• how does it feel to be carried out to the trash?
• Wouldn't it be nice if I could forget her
• Human Consciousness could be Immortal
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Germany could not be appeased
• The second chance you give could be your last
• The video cuts out here; nothing more can be determined from the tape.
• 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.
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
• I never realized how helpful a visual arts degree could be in fixing sump pumps
• Who Could That Be At This Hour?
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• We wanted to be together, so we worked it out.
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey

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