H Quotes
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“Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts.”
Source: Honolulu
“Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.”
Source: The Hawaii Novels: Moloka'i and Honolulu
“Hawaii ain't a bad place to work.”
“Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.”
“Hawaii doesn't smell like sex to me. It's the only place in the world that smells like that, but it's not sex, it's - freedom.”
“Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.”
“Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.”
“Hawaii is a connection I share with President Obama.”
“Hawaii is a small, close community.”
“Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.”
“Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.”
“Hawaii is absolutely beautiful.”
“Hawaii is an amazing place with the right partner!”
“Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.”
“Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.”
“Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.”
“Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.”
“Hawaii island: Erupting volcano, falling ash, lava inundations and bad air quality!”
“Hawaii island has a history of police officers murdering their wives.”
“Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii had traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again.
How could Leigh-Cheri draw for Gulietta the appropriate analogy between Hawaii's rodents and society at large? Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Hawaii’s climate has changed in just twenty years! It is hotter, more humid and has more thunderstorms.”
“Hawaii vog changes the environmental conditions in many areas including air quality, creates acid rain, drinking water quality, environmental radiation, light transmission, human health impacts, and so on.”
“Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.”
“Hawaii was just set to boom, and there were 4 fortunes to be made. The more I realized we were in the beginning stages of a boom, the more Xerox machines I sold.”
“Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.”
“Hawaiian Electric has turned into the new Pacific Gas and Electric Company.”
“Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.”
“Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.”
“Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.”
“Hawaiis own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.”
“Hawai‘i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart of Honolulu in a modern, vibrant mixed-use space.”
“Hawk?"
He gazed up at her, still crouched on the floor, ready to pounce if she so much as moved an inch.”
Source: Beyond the Highland Mist
“Hawke continued to walk beside his lieutenant— a man who, as a result of his incredible feats during the battle in San Francisco, now had a fan club. Complete with “I (heart) Judd” and “Judd Is My Boyfriend” memorabilia. In the normal course of events, civilians wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the former Arrow, but it had been impossible to evacuate the entire city prior to the Pure Psy attack.”
Source: Tangle of Need
“Hawke didn't bother to respond to that - he'd eat the baby cat alpha for breakfast.”
“Hawke?' I whispered, my heart crashing like thunder. 'Kiss me. Please.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Hawke placed a hand on the hilt of his broadsword and bowed slightly, his gaze never once leaving mine. 'With my sword and with my life, I vow to keep you safe, Penellaphe,' he spoke, voice deep and smooth, reminding me of rich decadent chocolate. 'From this moment until the last moment, I am yours.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Hawke stared back at me, almost curiously. 'Interesting.'
The corners of my lips turned down. 'What is?'
'You.'
'Me?”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Hawke wasn't the catalyst.
He was the reward.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Hawke's gaze was so innocent, Andrew knew it was pure bullshit”
Source: Play of Passion
“Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“Hawkeye: ...Remember when Magneto brain-zapped the X-Men into fightin' us? There's mind control goin' on here. That or Cyclops is-
Hank: I appreciate your concern, Hank, but I consulted Wolverine. He vouched for both Magneto and Ms Frost. And we, of all people, can't begrudge someone a second chance.
Hawkeye: Second chance? Magneto's had, like, THIRTY! How many times're we gonna get burned before we stop cookin' naked?
[...]
Hank: Listen, why don't you stay here and supervise the students? Things are tense enough with Pietro in there.
Hawkeye: Okay, kids, huddle up! We're gonna work on resisting mind control today. No particular reason.”
Source: Avengers Academy, Vol. 3: Second Semester
“Hawkgirl: Get your pet dragon's bony claws off us before I break them!
Carol: It's not a dragon, Hawgirl -- it's called the Predator. The "Entity of Love."
Hawkman: This thing's an "Entity of Love?"
Hawkgirl: I'd hate to see what the entity of hate looks like.
Carol: It's one of the oldest forces in the universe. It's motivated by love or, more important, the absence of love.”
“Hawking’s insistence on scientific laws hides the desire to transform the current scientific laws into the ultimate and absolute knowledge of everything, physical and metaphysical, of this world and the outer world. According to him, we are on the verge of declaring, with almost absolute certainty, that we have solved the whole enigma of existence and gone down to nearly the deepest end of science and scientific laws. Although he expressed many ideas in a simple, popular, and often funny way, there is a little bit of unjustifiable scientific conceit (to call it that way) behind some statements.
If we were to imagine the creative force capable of creating the Universe, this creative force would be out of time or eternal. The Eternal Being is not contingent or affected by the boundaries of the physical world. The no-boundary proposal is accurate in that there are no boundaries we can apply to the Eternal Being. Still, the Universe, as the Being with its beginning, is bounded by time. The first point of the Universe is its first limit; it would have no limits if it were a timeless Being. Even if there were a series of births and rebirths, these would still be limited creations or recreations of something eternal that creates or recreates itself through the creation of universes. The creative power of the Eternal Being is the ultimate force that keeps the Eternal Being alive. The only way for the Eternal Being to exist with meaning is through its creative power to rejuvenate itself in new ways and myriad forms constantly. The Creator is its creation, and the creation creates the creator in a deeper sense. Without creating, the Universal Being loses its purpose and becomes meaningless. Meaning is only possible in plurality. The World, or Universe, gives the Universal Being meaning and purpose. The world is its salvation.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Hawkins' mission was to instill Euro-American values and practices in Indigenous peoples - including the profit motive, privatization of property, debt, accumulation of wealthy by a few, and slavery - allowing settlers to gain the land and assimilate the Muskogees.”
Source: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
“Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons in addition to the weapons of mass destruction he already has, he is likely to use them or share them with terrorists. The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable – and must be preempted.”
“Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.”
“Hawn xi talba li jismagħha dan Alla tiegħek jew aħna biss mistennija nintrabtu biż-żobb ta’ maħfra?”
Source: Eħlisna mid-deni
“Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…” He grimaced. “She was a little like you.”
“Really?”
“I would have followed her anywhere,” he said. “Into any battle.”
Source: A Restless Truth
“Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.”