Tooka Quotes & Sayings

I learned something important from my short time as a market vendor: once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself. Before the public distribution system collapsed, the government alone decided who would survive and who would starve. The markets took away the government's control. — Yeonmi Park

You were a city exiled from skin, your mouth a burning church. — Warsan Shire

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding. — Walter Bagehot

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. — Kate Cary

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules. — Mike Carey

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca? — Chubby Checker

There is scarcely any passion without struggle. — Albert Camus

Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world. — Karen Marie Moning