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“You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”
Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask
“You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
“You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.”
“You who are sitting before me
have the power to
change my consciousness
into painting, poem, melody
or anything else!”
“You, who are so-called Illegal Aliens, must know that nooo human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful. They can be fat or skinny. They can be right or wrong. But illegal? How can a human being be illegal?”
“You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“You who are the Source of all Light in this world, whose rays illuminate the Earth, enlighten also our hearts and minds, so that we too can do your work.”
“You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .”
“You who call women the fairer sex, you may repress and deny all you want, but some of us were born with a howling void where our souls should sway”
Source: A Certain Hunger
“You who call women the fairer sex, you may repress and deny all you want, but some of us were born with a howling void where our souls should sway. I am a psychopath—and whatever their reasoning and whatever their diagnoses, the eager psychology and criminal justice students are all right to study me. And if they're wrong, I still enjoy their attention, and I'll do what I must to encourage it.”
Source: A Certain Hunger
“You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs
“You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.
You who'd be wise
should inquire
into the nature of
justice and evil
from your teachers,
seekers like yourself,
and the students
who question your answer.”
“You who dwell in the shadows, I wish for you to stand with us sometimes in the light,' says Cardan. 'To each, I give a mask. When you wear it, no one will be able to recall your height or the timbre of your voice. And in that mask, let no one in Elfhame turn you away. Every hearth will be open to you, including mine.'
They bow and lift the masks to their faces. When they do, there's a soft of distortion around them.
'You are kind, my king,' says one, and even I, who know them, cannot tell which is speaking. But what no mask can hide is how, once they give their bows and depart, one masked figure takes another's gloved hand.
Or how the third turns his shiny metal face toward Taryn.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.”
“You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?”
“You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going”
“You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered
thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”
“You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?”
Source: History of woman suffrage
“You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.”
“You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.”
“You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.”
“You who I called brother
How could you have come to hate me so?
Is this what you wanted?
I send the swarm, I send the horde
Then let my heart be hardened
And never mind how high the cost may grow
This will still be so
I will never let your people go”
Source: The Prince of Egypt
“You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing
That is more than your own.
Let it brush your cheeks
As it divides and rejoins behind you.
The trees you planted in childhood have grown
Too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.”
Source: In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus
“You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.”
Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography
“You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?”
Source: The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
“You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.”
“You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.”
“You. who may think to take the shortcut home, think of the journey that you have missed.”
“You who must rely on others for their happiness, will perpetually be planted in a life of grief and sorrow.”
“You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?”
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“You who sacrifice fortunes to see the luxuriance of the tropics or the polar lights of the arctic, must pay more dearly to see the One for whom the luxuriance of the tropics is poverty and the polar lights are a tallow candle.”
Source: Prayers by the Lake
“You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.”
“You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.”
Source: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
“You who speak languages, you are such liars.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
Source: Saint Denis
“You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!”
Source: Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004
“You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like hearing something creeping along the walls, just behind my head, getting closer and closer. A big insect, maybe a scorpion. A dry skittering, that's what madness sounds like to me.”
Source: The Golden Mean
“You, who use the eyes to find love, are truly blind.”
“You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!”
“You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“You whom I could not save,
Listen to me.
Can we agree Kevlar
backpacks shouldn’t be needed
for children walking to school?
Those same children
also shouldn’t require a suit
of armor when standing
on their front lawns, or snipers
to watch their backs
as they eat at McDonalds.
They shouldn’t have to stop
to consider the speed
of a bullet or how it might
reshape their bodies. But
one winter, back in Detroit,
I had one student
who opened a door and died.
It was the front
door to his house, but
it could have been any door,
and the bullet could have written
any name. The shooter
was thirteen years old
and was aiming
at someone else. But
a bullet doesn’t care
about “aim,” it doesn’t
distinguish between
the innocent and the innocent,
and how was the bullet
supposed to know this
child would open the door
at the exact wrong moment
because his friend
was outside and screaming
for help. Did I say
I had “one” student who
opened a door and died?
That’s wrong.
There were many.
The classroom of grief
had far more seats
than the classroom for math
though every student
in the classroom for math
could count the names
of the dead.
A kid opens a door. The bullet
couldn’t possibly know,
nor could the gun, because
“guns don’t kill people,” they don’t
have minds to decide
such things, they don’t choose
or have a conscience,
and when a man doesn’t
have a conscience, we call him
a psychopath. This is how
we know what type of assault rifle
a man can be,
and how we discover
the hell that thrums inside
each of them. Today,
there’s another
shooting with dead
kids everywhere. It was a school,
a movie theater, a parking lot.
The world
is full of doors.
And you, whom I cannot save,
you may open a door
and enter a meadow, or a eulogy.
And if the latter, you will be
mourned, then buried
in rhetoric.
There will be
monuments of legislation,
little flowers made
from red tape.
What should we do? we’ll ask
again. The earth will close
like a door above you.
What should we do?
And that click you hear?
That’s just our voices,
the deadbolt of discourse
sliding into place.”
“You whom my body longs for,
where are you?
In the stars, in the river, over the rainbow?
Perhaps you hide in the shadows of the mountains,
whistling in the wind through mighty peaks
Just maybe you are in every corner of my being
awaiting invocation
Ô Manna Breath
fill my life with your infinite power”
Source: Twilight Zone Encounters
“You… Why are you worrying about me, Lotte?” Her words sound so unsure, so genuinely confused, that it breaks my heart a little.
“Because somebody should,” I reply.”
Source: Hearts Forged in Dragon Fire
“You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.”
“You will abandon your greatest fear,
you will be filled with a faith so strong
the beauty of life will settle at your very core
And You will embrace me with courage only known
by a Knight on the eve of battle.”
“You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.”
“You will achieve full success only if you will obey the Lord and do that which pleases Him”
“You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal - to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.”
“You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.”