Hawaiian Gods Quotes

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

Umica ka hanu
HOLD THE BREATH
Be patient; don't give up. ~ Toni Polancy

We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods. ~ John Holloway

Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.' ~ Gabriel Iglesias

They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? ~ Rick Riordan

My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian. ~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says. ~ Lilikala K. Kame'eleihiwa

The gods are for whatever we wish. That is the point of gods. The gods will carry me onwards, and that is all that matters. ~ Kieron Gillen

There are many gods ... gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones
... The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods. ~ Rudolfo Anaya

All around us are the miracles of God. A tiny seed grows into a peepul tree. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly! ~ Dada J.P. Vaswani

All gods are selfish and vain. Gods demand worship. Gods demand prayer. ~ Brent Hayward

Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo, we have become as gods. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods. ~ F.T. McKinstry

The wild gods live with the wild plants. Once, all of our gods were plants and animals. The allies are the ancient gods, their wisdom is the ancient substrate of our volition; they are the maternal transmitters of our vision and dreams. Anthropomorphic gods were the children of the plant gods. That is why destroying wild habitat is parricide, because the gods cannot live without their habitat, and it was the gods that made us, and gave us our culture. ~ Dale Pendell

Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

Hero," said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. "Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let's try not to annoy them. ~ Sulari Gentill

If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well. ~ Kawai Strong Washburn

The Lord God must be greatly feared! We can't stand his wrath. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Hawaiian shirts fairly scream to be put on, ~ Maryrose Wood

Plastic gods are safe. Plastic gods don't mess with you. Plastic gods don't matter much; they fit in a small crevice of the life you want, the life you were planning to have. And when everything in life is working . . . plastic gods feel like enough. ~ Jennie Allen

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ~ Agnes Repplier

The diaries also revealed a deeply sensitive, intelligent woman, one who had hoped to start a college for Hawaiian women, affording them the 'same education as men.' She had planned to open a bank for women, enabling them to handle their own financial affairs. She recognized the need for more female lawyers and physicians, the need for women's rights over their bodies, and their destinies. And lastly, though she had a fondness for men, she felt women 'basically didn't need them. ~ Kiana Davenport

As she descended below the floor level of the loft, her former partner in juvenile crime was revealed to her from scuffed paniolo boots, up a long, muscled body that appeared to go on forever, to a venerable black Stetson. His cowboy look was new to her and it suited him. When she backtracked to his Hawaiian-sky blue eyes, she swayed under the impact and abruptly sat down. Any stair step would do." Noelani Beecham, Pele's Tears ~ Sharon K. Garner

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~ Theodor Reik

Juniper said the gods like to humble people who dream big dreams. But the gods had never done much for me, and I wasn't afraid of them. ~ April Genevieve Tucholke

God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see the whole picture. ~ Danny L. Deaube

So the gods," Moash said, nursing his own drink, "were pleased that you solved problems on your own ... by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?"
"Hush," Rock said. "Is good story. ~ Brandon Sanderson

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. ~ Lao-Tzu

Theologians could not even agree about the nature of their gods. These personages ranged from "blue touch-paper gods" who started everything and never interfered again, to "infinitely meddlesome gods who, as well as starting it off, police every elementary particle. ~ Peter Atkins

Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves.
God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate. ~ Joanne Harris

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did. ~ Sunil Gangopadhyay

Here is a Hawaiian legend once told to me: Sometimes the dead don't want to be dead. Sometimes souls go flitting around in the air, particles of light, drifting, until a mortal crams the soul back inside its bod. The kino wailua, or spirits, can be spotted anywhere, the face of a rock, a mountainside - a Hawaiian should always look for facial features. It is the mortal's job to perform the kapuku, or resuscitation process. It is our duty to sneak the soul beneath the toenail of a body, let the body rise up like a newly watered plant. ~ T Kira Madden

Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "When God arrives (and only then) the half-gods can remain." Left to themselves they either vanish or become demons. ~ C.S. Lewis

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods. ~ Heraclitus

If that shit is a Hawaiian print, I'm going to kill you. ~ J.R. Ward

There's war between the gods, Uhtred, war between the Christian god and our gods, and when there is war in Asgard the gods make us fight for them on earth. ~ Bernard Cornwell

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men. ~ Alaya Dawn Johnson

Meanwhile, Hawaiian politicians tried to make up for lost time by officially granting cops the "right" to rape sex workers by spelling the permission out in the text of the new prostitution law. When a legislator discovered this provision in 2015 and rewrote the law to scrap it, the cops demanded that their decades-old droit du seigneur remain in place, and it probably would've had not the media gotten hold of the story and a public outcry not ensued. Now there's a movement to decriminalize sex work there, which might at last free Hawaiian whores from the tender mercies of cops. ~ Maggie McNeill

If the gods do evil then they are not gods. ~ Euripides

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion. ~ Dan Simmons

Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods. ~ Terry Pratchett

Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,
her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady. ~ Virginia Woolf

Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief … ~ Terry Pratchett

Your Gods and my Gods - do you or I know which are the stronger? - Native Proverb. ~ Rudyard Kipling

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring them on. The god of the guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, of self-righteousness, idiocy and blame. All the stuff they try and land me with. Take a lot of the weight off my shoulders." He sighed. ~ Neil Gaiman

Don't interfere with false gods, you'll get the gold paint all over your hands. ~ Margaret Atwood

I'd sooner worship a lemon than any of the gods men have created. ~ Marty Rubin

If all the gods are indeed dead, I like to think they died laughing. ~ Marty Rubin

I saw my real gods . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity. ~ Anne Rice

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. ~ Homer

Gods?" said Xeno. "We don't bother with gods. Huh. Relics of an outmoded belief system, gods."
There was a rumble of thunder from the clear evening sky.
"Except for Blind Io the Thunder God," Xeno went on, his tone hardly changing. ~ Terry Pratchett

When I look at the multitude of the gods of the past held in esteem by great civilisations now cast aside as pagan idols, I wonder wether tomorrow the gods we hold in high esteem won't suffer the same fate. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

They have feared the gods, as they should, for gods are a bunch of sodden bastards. For a man who does not fear them, does not fear the terrible consequences. If mortals fail, gods fall. ~ Alaric Longward

Our faith institutions have the best product that God can offer; but we have the worst customer service imaginable. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Krishna,Christ, Allah we are one but you idiot humans divided me ~ Anonymous

One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up. ~ Neil Gaiman

So, in other words, we tore our world apart to get rid of these gods. And they were very bad gods, right?' I say, just to be clear. 'Not just messing around and having funsies with their adoring followers but truly wicked and vile? ~ Liz De Jager

Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking. ~ Orson Scott Card

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

We are the Gods, who create Gods, and then we turn into worshipers seeking comfort and solace from those Gods that we create. And we do all this, in order to have as much soothing existence as possible. ~ Abhijit Naskar

I'm part Chinese, part Hawaiian, part Filipino, and part nigger. You'd hate to be me ~ Raymond Chandler

Coming to Hawai'i is like going from black and white to color. ~ John Richard Stephens

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next. ~ Sophocles

I will never understand the appeal of the Hawaiian pizza. ~ Judd Winick

the gods play no
favorites. ~ Charles Bukowski

Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?
I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods. ~ Dan Simmons

Only the Gods are real. ~ Neil Gaiman

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ~ Margaret Atwood

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise. ~ Neil Gaiman

Dear God, please don't let me be too busy to recognize your blessings, or hear your voice. ~ Germany Kent

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love? ~ Lev Grossman

Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing. ~ Max Gladstone

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far. ~ Mason Cooley

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed. ~ Terry Pratchett

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer ~ Jacqueline Carey

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it. ~ Neil Gaiman

Lord, she really hoped that was his penis and that Greek gods didn't pad their briefs. ~ Rosanna Leo

The gods speak to us, and irony is their language. ~ Tim W. Burke

If the Gods give up on you, will you continue? ~ Jack Thanatos

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death. ~ Lynn Blackmar

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time. ~ Terry Pratchett

If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools. ~ Janet Morris

I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic."
That REALLY didn't sound good.
"What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?"
"I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant."

~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks? ~ Rick Riordan

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way. ~ James Clavell

The gods are nothing more than the creations of humans needing something to blame for their problems. ~ Andy Peloquin

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?" "No, sir." "Gods don't think they can become men. ~ Dennis Lehane

When men make gods, there is no God! ~ Eugene O'Neill

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. ~ Terry Pratchett

Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods. ~ Bernard Cornwell

A Spartan, seeing a man taking up a collection for the gods, said that he did not think much of gods who were poorer than himself. ~ Plutarch

Even in the darkest times the gods are always there. ~ Tomi Adeyemi

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers. ~ Kirby Wright

The gods say that a man is made the way he is for a purpose, and to seek to alter that is -"

"Then let the gods live a day in my skin before they judge me. ~ Devin Madson

I'm a Hawaiian shirt guy. I've made that life decision. ~ Chris O'Dowd

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? ~ Hermann Hesse

Faith should mean something. Gods . . . should stand for something, not chop and change with every breeze that blows. Gods should be worshipped for the truths they represent, not what party favours they might dispense.-Razor Eddie the Punk God of the Straight Razor ~ Simon R. Green

Nobody killed gods, nobody had the intention of killing gods. People simply ignored them as they failed to keep their promises ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana