Thuggish Splicer Quotes & Sayings

Transparency isn't a replacement for integrity and honesty; it's an infrastructural tool that allows for those attributes to occur - but only if the public is willing act upon the information that they receive as a result of transparency in a conscious, deliberate way. — Clay A. Johnson

The southern half of Riverskin was indistinguishable from Flyside, which it adjoined. It was cheap and not too violent, crowded, mostly good-natured. It was a mixed area, with a large human majority beside small colonies of vodyanoi by the quiet canal, a few solitary outcast cactacae, even a little two-street khepri hive, a rare traditional community outside of Kinken and Creekside. Southern Riverskin was also home to some of the city's small number of more exotic races. There was a shop run by a hotchi family in Bekman Avenue, their spines carefully filed blunt so as not to intimidate their neighbours. There was a homeless llorgiss, which kept its barrel body full of drink and staggered the streets on three unsteady legs. — China Mieville

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I prayed to Woden for forgiveness, but I think he felt no ill will for me. We are but men. He has done worse. — Alaric Longward

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee. — Pope Leo XIII

I have never loved like I love you. You've got to know this. My silly drunk girl. — Jessica Topper

He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup? — Erica Sehyun Song

Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference. — Octavia E. Butler