Hawaiian Saying Quotes & Sayings

Traditional Saying (Hawaiian): Only when the water gourd isn't full do you hear it gurgling. (Those who are ignorant have an awful lot to say.) — John Richard Stephens

Newspapers often speak of "personal sorrows" or of "incurable illness." These explanations are plausible. But one would have to know whether a friend of the desperate man had not that very day addressed him indifferently. He is the guilty one. For that is enough to precipitate all the rancors and all the boredom still in suspension. — Albert Camus

What name shall I call you?"
"Addie's fine. I know who she is."
"A mouthy little alchemist?"
"See, you know her, too. — Becca Andre

Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win. — Charlotte Bronte

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes. — Mark Fiore

Traditional (Hawaiian Saying): A road goes down, up and level. In other words. life is like a road. — John Richard Stephens

Once you get the hang of this, you should totally try to add some mass," Becca said. "You could get really big. You can tell by the size of your elbows." "My elbows?" "There's no fat on the elbow," she said, "so it's a good way to assess bone structure, how big your body can get. I've got small-to-medium elbows, so I'm really limited. — Rainbow Rowell

Of course, we often think we have to get sick literally in order to get the rest or pleasure we need in our lives. Bobbie and I therefore taught our children when they were younger that if they needed a day off from school, they should just say that and take a health day, not a sick day. That made them look at life differently. I think all of us need to rethink our attitudes toward health and sickness. — Bernie S. Siegel

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences. — John Hockenberry

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? — Michael J. Fox

Take no heed of good looks , but rather of callused hand.
Old Maori saying: Choose a husband for his work, not his appearance. — Toni Polancy

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well. — Glenn Close

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. — Carol Shields

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd. — Flannery O'Connor

We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do. — Wendell Berry

I'm probably not going to play a junkie and that's OK because there are other people who will do it better. — Rosamund Pike

I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear. — Jim Starlin

Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I — Patrick Rothfuss