"In England, Rooney is a world-class footballer in the world."

“But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.”

“All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.”

“I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.”

“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”

“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.”

“I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.”

Source : "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

“Every heart has its own melody.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.187, Simon and Schuster