
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/29/bloombergs_memo.php
Illegal Immigration
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
15 January 2005
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/49c4cd60d948032d
On testing
The last line of this last stanza is also sometimes rendered "This land is made for you and me."
This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
Source: The Bell Jar
“If dogs could fly, nobody would go out without an umbrella.”
Stephen King (StephenKing) 4 sept 2017 18:28 Tweet https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/904878959766245377
"Machine Gun"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)
“Nobody has ever said the negotiation would be straightforward and simple.”
Interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05k0894 (15 October 2017)
2017
“She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside.”
"Nobody's Home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eLfvdeInFg (2004)