Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Quotes

#1. I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

Elle Macpherson

#2. No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Louis D. Brandeis

#3. I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

Temple Grandin

#4. Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.

Taylor Lautner

#5. Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#6. Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will
prosper, hope that once again we will reap the blessings of this
magical land, for without hope I cannot live, remember the past but
do not dwell there, face the future where all our hopes stand.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#7. It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning.

Jerome K. Jerome

#8. Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

#9. Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Arne Jacobsen

#10. Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

Christine Pelosi

#11. I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#12. It does not pay to be
possessive of a man determined to remain free.

Karen Hawkins

#13. One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#15. Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#16. Wherever you go, God be with you.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#17. We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves.

Andrew Saul

#18. But that's a way to go on loving
a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]

Shirley Hazzard

#19. I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He had a general libertarian point of view, but in general, he just liked to make jokes.

Joel Stein