Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I had hoped our relationship would be a long and happy one, but I'll settle for short and exciting"

• Don't be sad, I'll make you happy
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• I'm not one to be had for the wanting, Sir
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• If we had a more developed tailbone, would we wag our tail?
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• They knew what our pain would be.
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• but wherever i go i'll be looking for you
• Mandy would be happy if i died
• If I were Twenty-One I would be happy
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• The music makes one's blood boil and long to be in some obscure, untamed place with the one you love
• One day, E2 will attain sentience. And I'll be there to see it.
• Tell me what's real and I'll learn to be happy
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• 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
• But what kind of violence would not be natural? Is not cruelty natural?
• 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.
• We had no bait but our tongues
• The hope that one of us would learn to swim
• I'll never be the one to force my parents into an "old age" home
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• How to be happy for a certain period of time
• I will go. I shall go. I'll see where the end may be.
• Your noise would not be missed here.
• I'll be in my bunk.
• How to be the first one off the line at a 4-way stop sign
• No one can be unhappy with a fresh box of crayons
• One should be careful to whom he gives the finger
• It is not known why a goose would be used in this manner
• life is short, life is shit, and soon it will all be over
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true
• Mind without body
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• One need not be a chamber to be haunted
• Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one
• eternity would be boring
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1975
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• No one can be in two places at once
• Should I be happy?
• I never thought it would be like this
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
• You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
• Why Star Trek: Series V would be a bad thing
• I couldn't possibly be the only one who doesn't see empathy as a curse
• How To Be Happy In A Sad, Sad World
• throw away words we catch in cages where our hearts should be
• Limiting the number of fuzzy shirts allowed in one room
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• If anything were different, everything would be different
• it would be hilarious if only
• long to be thin (user)
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1985
• A Scene That, To Understand, One Must Be A Led Zeppelin Fan
• I'll be you and you'll be me
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
• Before long the Goddess Tiamat through hip-hop you'll be facing
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• Governments cannot be trusted with our personal information
• Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
• I'll be your fantasy
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• you had to be there
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• I assumed we would not even be friends
• AI should be our top priority.
• No One Here Is Ever Going to be President: Noders raise things in the city where things fall down
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
• Which is not to be found in our obituaries
• Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• I set the alarm clock anyway, knowing I would be up all night
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• Linux would be dead without Windows
• Unraveling things you would never be able to say with words.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• You're not going to be happy until you put someone's eye out
• Life without music would be a mistake
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• The Ten Commandments revised
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• The woman had a carnivorous frenzy which could only be soothed by the succulent sirloin
• I'll be back at it, dirty and reckless
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• Open source cars would be doing 200 mpg by now
• If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
• If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
• he thought it would be great fun to conquer the world
• The best kind of bartender
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• Chant and be Happy
• Short can be good! (document)
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• Maybe even this will one day be pleasant to recall
• No one wants to be a nihilist
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• Not to die but to be reborn...
• well, I'll be jiggered
• Where would America be without Canada?
• I'll Be a Sunbeam
• And it's one more good thing that will never be again
• 'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• The Man Who Would Be King
• How to tell whether a figure can be drawn in one stroke
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• I'll be a monkey's uncle
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• There can be only one
• The Filesystem That Would Be King
• That I Would Be Good
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
• The Scots Confession: Chapter 7
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
• In a world of blind people, c would be the speed of sound
• The goal of all life is to be fat, dumb and happy
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• A whimper would be fine
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
• I'll Be Your Johnny on the Spot
• Why we long to be American
• Any function can be represented as the sum of an even function and an odd one
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• I'll be
• Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Maybe when we drown the fish will be our friends
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• Be a model or just look like one
• How to be Happy, Dammit
• Our Band Could Be Your Life
• It will be a hot day and these two ice cubes. We will melt, become one.
• Maybe someday I'll be an M&M the color of your eyes
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• panamaus does the Antipodes, or Get yer shorts on Sydney, there be a NoderParty!
• Starving in the greenhouse
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• If by Dull Rhymes our English must be Chain'd
• Rebeca Martinez
• I'll be your Huckleberry!
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• Just to see what it would be like
• Don't worry, Be Happy!
• I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy
• You do realise that this is going to be our lives for the next ten years?
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• Your first relationship will be nuked: Don't give up
• I'll be waiting for you in heaven... with a gun
• No one can be totally logical
• To be hoist by one's own petard
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• Hot pursuit

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