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. - Author: Elle Macpherson

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

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

#5. Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e. - Author: 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. - Author: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#7. It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning. - Author: 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. - Author: 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. - Author: 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.' - Author: 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. - Author: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#12. It does not pay to be
possessive of a man determined to remain free. - Author: Karen Hawkins

#13. One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. - Author: Jean De La Bruyere

#14. I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister. - Author: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#15. Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody. - Author: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

#16. Wherever you go, God be with you. - Author: 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. - Author: 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] - Author: 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. - Author: Joel Stein