Quotes of the day, September 13

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

Roger Federer

• Problem
• Moments
• Tennis

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

Anne Bronte

• Company
• Chess Player

There’s more to life than just London,’ said Nightingale. ‘People keep saying that,’ I said. ‘But I’ve never actually seen any proof.

Ben Aaronovitch

• People
• Life
• Proof

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

Raymond Moody

• Universe
• Philosopher
• Holes

I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.

Vladimir Putin

• Believe
• Thinking
• Country