Hal Jordan (New Earth)/Quotes

Tom -- fix it.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Kyle held the torch when no else did. When no one else could.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I started nothing. That is the great sadness. And I cannot stop it... because that which began it resulted from an event outside the proper, natural order. Only you can stop it by accepting... this.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power, Green Lantern's light!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

He needed someone to hate for what had happened to him. He chose Superman.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

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--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You're the worst kind of villain, Deimos. One obsessed with power for power's sake. You wield it for your own selfish needs. But power like that can not only save lives. It can revive them. My universe. My world. My Coast City. You bore me.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Stow the high school angst, Batman -- nobody's buying it.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You can't foresee all the consequences of your actions -- But that's no excuse to do nothing.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've got a lot to say, and I'm not much good at speeches, so please don't interrupt me. When I saw, a little while ago, the strength of Green Arrow's love for Dinah, I realized that I've been denying myself that sort of strength... because I was proud, because I insisted on my own terms... because I demanded you accept me, not as the dashing Green Lantern, but as plain... Hal Jordan!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You pit me against this thing-- you put this power on my hand-- and you want me to be a nice boy?! Hell no!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

What am I now? A green fire. A flash of light. A blast of force. What am I? The power. Am I afraid? Yes. But the fear doesn't matter now.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Be prepared. It is coming. Make yourself whole.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Guess Again.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I could always use my ring to create the money, or to make myself a plane. But I need to show that my will-power works on more than just the ring. That I can use it to reshape my world, to make the life I want.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

What?! You expect me to commercialize my position-- and the Green Lantern Corps?!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Hello, Barry. Having a hellacious time, as usual. Wish you were here. Bit if all we've got is your immature protegé... Well, we'll make do.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Glad to see you so in charge of the situation. Earlier I was thinking some bad thoughts about your maturity. Maybe I owe you an apology.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

''HAY-ZUS! Is that Carol? She's gorgeous! I haven't seen her strut like that for years! She must be about to make a big play for me!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

"Disorder" again. He chose to divide us instead of attacking us. Can it be order he's been afraid of all this time?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Only lucky play never won a bowl, Gardner! Consistency and intelligence carry the day!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Who would want Hal Jordan dead? That's a long list.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Emotions are dangerous. Maybe they should be controlled somehow.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

We all taking a chance with this. Pick your poison.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

In Blackest day, In Brightest night Beware your fears...MADE INTO LIGHT!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You want to force the universe to feel what you feel. But life is... subjective, Krona. The Guardians' greatest flaw is not realizing that.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Maybe you haven't heard the news, Mongul...my ring works on yellow!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I'm going to hit him really, really hard with a big green boxing glove. I'm kidding.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

This universe is unguarded. It lives in the darkness beyond the twilight. Parallax will bring the dawn.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I annihilated the Green Lantern Corps in my universe. Consumed their power to make everything right. I was too late. Now I come to this universe and see Oa destroyed . Worshippers of Sinestro roaming free. But Coast City still survives. I sense it. It's not too late. I will save it. And that means Hal Jordan must die!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Look what you're becoming! You shouldn't exist! I'll find more power! Coast City! Your life! It'll all be mine!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Stop it, or I'll stop it for you.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

There are millions, maybe billions, dead or dying in the worlds as they are. Can we choose their deaths, because they're easier to bear?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Gone! All our weapons are gone!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I thought Green Lantern's was the ultimate power. I knew what it was to wield enough naked energy to alter time and space. To change the universe. But, compared to the Wrath, G.L.'s power is like a flickering candle beside an exploding sun. It just...erupts in me, through me. And, Jim...I haven't learned to control it yet. The Specre is controlling me!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I don't believe this. I knew I should've designed my costume with a cowl.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

...and the reason startled the living bulldinky out of me!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

This is captain Richard Davis -- the best blasted pilot the air force ever had... He was my commanding officer and mentor and trainer and everything else. He made me the pilot I am today!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Sometimes, John, we have to answer to a higher morality.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've served the Guardians loyally and more or less unquestioningly for many years. To suddenly discover the very cornerstone of their claim to universal power and dominion is rooted in falsehood... This is going to take some thought, Ganthet. This is going to take a lot of long, hard thought.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

All I know is that we've banly tapped the surface of the stories to be told... about the Green Lantern Corps!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

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Yeah, well, the cosmos has been throwing some big stuff at me lately... and something tells me it's not about to get any smaller.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You can't hide someone's inner strength for long -- not from someone who has the experience -- and the courage -- to find it!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Why does it seem all the women I care about end up mentally damaged or possessed?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

If there's anything benevolent about these jokers... them I'm Guy Gardner!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Cooperation is the only way we're all going to be able to do what we have to.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

In brightest day... in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power -- Green Lantern's light!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Make you a deal then. I don't make it out, you can have my little black book. The one with the home numbers. Even Power Girl's.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

As a would-be conqueror, you're a flop!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Sometimes I think Green Arrow is right! I do have too much respect for authority!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Old friend... sometimes your self-righteousness gives me a pain! Go polish your halo elsewhere! I've got work to do!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

My ring failed me in Star City! I'm wondering... is it me? Have I recovered enough to resume my Green Lantern duties? Or could it be something else?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You do have a knack for stating the obvious!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

The measure of a man isn't taken at his strongest.' It's got to be when he's all but down! And when he refuses to stay down! Even when his body can no longer move... Hope has seemingly fled. The measure of a man is one who can accept all his weaknesses -- and make the his strengths!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Shut your mouth, or I'll shut it for you.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Sometimes you follow a road for years and then it drops off in front of you. Where all your destinations used to be, now there's just a hole. A lot's dropped out from under me in fifteen years. Fifteen years since I crash-landed that plane, since I picked up the ring from the desert floor. The "Guardians of the Universe" and the Green Lantern Corps. Tomar-Re, Katma-Tui, and a dozen other friends on a dozen different planets. Carol Ferris and the aircraft company that bears her name. An engineering group called the gremlins, who won't talk to me anymore. Jets. When you start on them, the roads stretch away endlessly into the countryside. But then you top the last ride and you find nothing but the hole. And when you reach the hole, there's nowhere to go. Nowhere--and everywhere!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I can try to be philosophical, tell myself that it isn't time yet. Bur it's two now. Two places I could have stayed a while, to learn some things about the world and me. Two I've had to leave too soon. Don't cross my path again Guy Gardner. Just don't cross my path.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've always done what I truly believed was right. At first, people called me a hero for it ... and then a villain. As the memory of what I've done — and been — fades, I hope I will be seen ... in a different light.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I won't live in fear, Jim. I can't.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Is this the life I'm coming back to? Is this the strongest emotion in the universe? Is fear what controls everyone and everything? Yeah. I didn't think so.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You have food in the refrigerator older than her, Hal. Who are you. Ollie? No bad thoughts. She's seventeen.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Green Lantern has always believed in freedom. And i will fight for what I believe.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Try what you wish with me, Beast, but don't you dare lay a stinking finger on the woman I love!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I'm a good guy. Aren't I? Without rules, it's hard to tell.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Listen, we've all come through a lot in our different ways. Some of us had a comparatively easy time of it -- some of us didn't. But we got here seven of us now -- to protect this little planet -- and not only because it's right and just to protect life anywhere -- but because the future of the now-unified universe is evolving here now! We don't know if the Guardians are ever coming back, but we have their promise that beings like them, and the female Zamarons, will arise on Earth. That will probably be long after we're all gone... but like, perhaps, the Knights of our earlier days, I swear to give everything this ring and I have to keep alive in my time -- so that life in future days may achieve the grandeur we have been privileged to know in the Guardians of the Universe!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You?! You've been the cause behind all this -- ?! B-but how can that be -- when you're really -- Star Sapphire!?!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

So you — all the locations — the lab here ... Titans Tower ... Blue Valley — he had links to all of them, didn't he? Residue ... that's why you picked these — why you came here — you're bringing back — dear God. You brought them all back.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

They say I'm fearless, but actually I'm very afraid. Of getting beat. Of backing down. Of chickening out. That fear just blows all the others away.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You've always had it wrong, Sinestro. Even rookies know that a Green Lantern isn't without fear. A Green Lantern overcomes fear. Everytime they face it.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

There are worse things than dying, friend. With this little ring I can take you apart molecule by molecule and then put you back together again. And maybe I put you back together right and maybe I don't. But you'll be alive and conscious for every second of it.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Do you hear me -- I'm a Green Lantern!! I swore an oath to protect this woebegone universe, and I won't turn my back on it now! So go on -- go back to your home worlds if you must. Meet death on your knees if that's the way you want it. But I remember a saying we used to have in the Corps -- "Once a Green Lantern, always a Green Lantern." So I'm going to use what little time my Power Ring has left, and I'm going to finish Krona -- even if I have to do it alone!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Not Green Lantern, Arrow. Not anymore. I've taken the name Parallax. I've seen the universe from many different directions, and I know how to fix it -- even if it means destroying it!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Interesting place, the End of Time. Entropy crushes all energy -- all Life. From here, you can look back on all that is and all that was -- and change it. Easy to do... if you know how. The cosmos is in agony. And I'm the only one who knows how it should be. The countdown has begun... the countdown to... ZERO HOUR.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Coast City. It was my home once. My friends' home. Now it's nothing. An engine built on rubble. Built on the corpses of people I knew. And one of those corpses -- might be Carol's. If they think their missiles can keep me out... they're wrong. Nothing's keeping me out. Nothing's keeping me from finding the monster who did this. Nothing's keeping my hands from his throat.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I should stay. Those Newark dialects can be inscrutable.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Who's Green Lantern?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Energize you Batman? My pleasure!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I think that Carol is falling in love with me as Green Lantern! But I want her to be in love with me as Hal Jordan! Golly! What a situation!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Carol, you just have to trust me. I can't tell you why I had to run out on you suddenly -- or what I've been doing since then. All I can say is that my excuse is a legitimate one... but I'll say this! I'll tell you everything someday -- after we're married!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

There are others who can become wives and mothers--there are very few--women or men--in the universe fit to be Green Lanterns! You are one of us, Katma Tui! And once a Green Lantern--always a Green Lantern!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've done everything you've ever asked me! I've never shirked a duty! I've suffered and fought--and now you suddenly take away my status as Green Lantern--and give it to Alan Scott? Why? Why? WHY?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

What a spot to be caught in! Letting a girl fight my battles... while I mess around trying to get this power ring to work.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

It's getting harder to focus, Ollie. I... There's something wrong with me. None of this should be happening. This isn't me. This isn't who I am.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I don't hear any voices. Nothing inside screaming you cannot do this. Or telling me to go and "find" myself. No more soul searching road trips. I'm Hal Jordan. Man. Pilot. Green Lantern.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Enjoy the ride home, pal. I did.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

This is what I've been waiting -- praying for. A chance to make it up to you -- all of you. I can't bring you back -- but I can answer for my sins.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I can't believe this. With that ring I'm probably the most powerful man on earth. I've heard of people with powers like this... from World War II... But Nobody Since. Nobody till me. And here I am...

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

My god, I disagree with you and it took you almost five whole minutes to call me a Nazi.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

It seemed like such a miracle, like a childhood dream, having a ring that could do anything. So far, it's been a nightmare.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I'm not going to let you get lost again.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Goliath would have run scared if David had a slingshot like this-- A power-ring fork... The Elongated Man for a rubber band... And Superman for ammunition! Four... three... two... one...

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Guess it was just your good fortune to be on Earth when the Ultima-Card was introduced-- And your bad fortune to run into the Justice League! I'll power-beam you and Sonar to your respective jailers-- And that will end that!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Blast it, Arrow! You're always so quick to see conspiracies! I'm not brainwashed! I'm admitting my guilt, on my honor as a Green Lantern! I would have admitted it last night if I'd had the chance! Can't you see it's eating me alive?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

"All things have a season," Superman. Maybe Earth-Prime's time for super-heroes hasn't yet come... But it will! Just give it time!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

All right, Superman! Speak up! What's turned you anti-hero?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I don't understand how both of us can be here. But if going back means there's a chance I'll turn into you, Parallax... And do those terrible things you did...I won't let it happen.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Yellow. Gotta... remember that...

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Sooner or later you have to turn and face it-- you made a mistake! Welcome to the human race, pal. It's your choice. If you let it, it will destroy you. But if you do let it, remember you had a choice... you just picked the easiest way. You didn't fall into that bottle. You crawled in and pulled the cork in after you!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

What am I expecting? What call would I ever get... from a vacuum? Tomorrow morning, then. I start a new rhythm. Tomorrow morning, I don't charge the ring. Tomorrow morning, I am only a man. Tomorrow morning... if it ever comes...

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

We have to gamble now, master. There's no time to be prudent.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Help me, John. You know people. You knew Carol. And you're smarter than me. Maybe between us we can purge her. Maybe we can find the Carol in her.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

It would be tempting, wouldn't it? All it would take, really, is the will. Oh, certainly, every last vestige of willpower that could be summoned. But it would be tempting. Think of it. The power to resurrect that which no longer exists... or create that which only exists in the mind's eye. All of it perfect in every detail. The power to make the dead live again... to redress any wrong... to rewrite history with a happy ending.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

What they made me is a slave... and all I've got to show for it is a big hole in the ground that used to be everything important to me.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Batman... crying like a child! That I lived to see this day!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Great Guardians! Flash! It is you! You are the menace who has been triggering these disasters!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

And it's a rotten guess! Empty as my bank account!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You risked lives for a wager... a game... an amusement... a stinking, filthy gamble! War is fun? is that what you think? Take a look... a good hard look at your friend! You're looking at war!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I'm assigned to protect this space sector--and protect it I will! If I catch you in it again, I'll do more than wreck your equipment! Got me?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Once a Green Lantern, always a Green Lantern!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I won't give up. There must be another way... a way I can help -- legally. I can't let myself believe Green Arrow was right. My whole life is based on a respect for authority. I've always believed that if a law isn't just, I had to do whatever possible to change it -- not disobey it! Maybe I'm wrong... but I won't accept that until I've tried everything.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've got a lot to say, and I'm not much good at speeches, so please don't interrupt me. When I saw, a little while ago, the strength of Green Arrow's love for Dinah, I realized that I've been denying myself that sort of strength... because I was proud, because I insisted on my own terms... because I demanded you accept me, not as the dashing Green Lantern, but as plain... Hal Jordan!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I suggest you surrender immediately. I'm in no mood.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Despite our civilizations, we're ignorant creatures at large in a vast, mysterious universe.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You condemn me? Without a trial? After I've spent my adult life obeying you? And I suppose you expect me to stand here and take whatever poison you're serving? No... no... Absolutely not!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

So the Guardians have finked out on me because I no longer run errands for them -- but I was chosen for my job because I'm supposed to be brave -- courage is easy when you can't die. The ring is constantly playing mother hen. So... am I really courageous--? To HECK with the ring! Ah! To be able to prove myself again... to face danger alone... and to best it by my own strength! Ever since I've joined the Lantern Corps... something's been missing from my life... something called -- self-reliance!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I'm not sure I have the right to wear this ring. I'm not on duty with the Green Lantern Corps -- and I suspect the Guardians aren't happy with my long leave of absence. Still, I vowed to combat wrong anywhere... at any time. Regardless of my official status, I mean to fulfill that vow!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Ignorance of the past may doom the future

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You aliens are always giving ultimatums! Here's one from me to you... I'm telling you -- politely -- free those Earth-people you've stolen and abandon your plan! Find another reason to continue life -- or else!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've never even seen him before! I have no idea what sort of creature he was... what sort of world he came from... but I feel a kinship with him--and I swear he won't have died in vain!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've taken on super-villains and alien menaces -- only to be defeated by New York garbage...

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Get to the point, Eclipso! I always like to know what kind of death-device I'm smashing.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I can use my ring to turn you into guacamole, okay? So, if our mutual threats are out of the way, let's get down to business.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I almost feel sorry for you -- your patriotism is real -- if horribly misguided!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Great Guardians! It never dawned on me that the Ungarans wouldn't know their champion had died! They think I'm a murder!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I didn't want to admit to myself how scared I was. I was afraid I'd have to give up my Green Lantern career -- and that's what gives meaning to my life. Without the danger -- the constant challenge -- I'd be bored to insanity! I'm so happy I could even eat Ollie's Chili.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

A sane Sinestro was a threat! A mad one could be a disaster!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Look, Carol... in the morning you can go back to hating me. But for tonight, let's pretend we're the friends we used to be.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Hal Jordan has taken a backseat to Green Lantern long enough. It's time for the hero to die, and the man to live.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

To wage a war is simple, but to wage a peace is the truest test of civilized being!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I think about what I've seen... a man who never gave up looking for life.... even when death was laughing in his face... and I remember the words of a poet... "Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage... against the dying of the light."

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I am a Green Lantern -- It's what drives me -- And I intend to remain one until I die!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Ironic, isn't it? You're an immortal man -- and you just didn't have time enough to beat me!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Yep, this is Qward all right. Nobody in my universe is that ugly!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

What bizarre evolutionary forces could have led to the development of three humanoid species so wildly different from each other, yet in such close proximity?

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I was judging Dalor by my own standards, by Earth standards. And a Green Lantern who travels galaxies can't afford to be so narrow in his thinking! There are a lot of different life-styles out there, and I'll have to accept all of them, without judging or condemning them!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Smashing a door is one thing, intruder... Defeating Haljor the Barbarian, weilder of the Powersword, is quite another!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Oh, they trusted us! They trusted that we'd want to use these rings if we knew about them... at the expense of our lives! They trusted that we'd put guarding others above our own well-being! That they'd recruited the noblest in the universe... to be... Green Lanterns!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Every 24 hours, when I charge this ring at the battery, I recite a sacred Oath -- And I don't intend to let it become just a bunch of empty words! Not now -- Not ever!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

I've served you well, Guardians. On your behalf, I've battled the vilest scum this universe has to offer... and I think I've earned my rest. There are thousands of inhabited worlds in my space sector, countless worthy beings... give this ring to one of them! I really don't care who you give it to -- just so long as it isn't mine anymore.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Even dead in his seat, his hand frozen on the stick, Rich Davis did what a pilot is supposed to do... he brought hes plane home safe.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

You're a killer, Predator -- Nobody denies that! But I'll dare any danger for Carol! I gave up the universe for her! That's how much I love her!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

It's a cliche, Guy, but like Black Hand always says, cliche's are really folk wisdom -- and here's one that can't be repeated too often: war is hell!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

And one more thing, young lady -- You've got to stop this flirting with me!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

In brightest day... in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power -- Green Lantern's light!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Never try to scare me, Dox! It's a waste of precious time!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

We all have our differences-- but we have one thing in common! We're here to save Maltus-- and that means we've got to follow our conscience instead of our orders! We must act as a team!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

It's this problem I have, Mr. Kent... My two brothers are always razzing me about it cause it usually gets me into trouble! I know it sounds hokey... But it's the absolute truth! I seem to have been born without fear! Nothing scares me!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Don't even think of writing this up in your Green Lantern Casebook!

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

Imagine that-- I've left the little hot-headed motor-mouth speechless. Someone alert the media.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)

This is the second time I've saved your shiny, bald backside.

--Hal Jordan (New Earth)