Luke Mohan > Recent Status Updates

For every moment of her life was her own. “Not a moment your own,” Lucille had said. But all her moments belonged to her life.

I do feel sorry for the rich. The poor, Mum, we’re used to nothin’. But it’s cruel hard for the rich to be poor. It’s best to be used to nothin’. Then you’re thankful for the little you get.

“You’ve begun Susan. God knows where you’ll end.”

The actions and characters of human beings still matter, and leaders obviously have the greatest influence of all…Leaders matter in any age for good or ill, and there are times in history when a few individuals make a profound difference, even if much of it is unintentional.

Waiting and trusting those whom you have empowered is the soul of kingship

It was one thing to accept nothingness for oneself, but never possible to do the same for those in whom one had recognized the reflection of the beautiful snd the good, those whom one had loved.

Men don’t easily believe in humanity; but the thing a man resigns himself to even less easily than dying is killing truth in himself.

Pain’s something that wants to be respected.

Almost the greatest good a doctor can do is to speak a word of kindness. There is hardly any other profession where the human heart is laid so entirely bare.

Very confusedly she felt that here was a force, a power, which might overturn everything and transfigure her whole life, if she let devotion and love for this imbecile waken in her. And she feared that, as people often fear what would save them.

He thought of Micheline again and of the part he played in her life. It’s odd, he reflected, how can one implant and develop virtues and purity in a human being one loves, without having them oneself.

Guerran, an atheist who was not happy about being so, sent his daughter to a convent.

Lord Salisbury: “No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by experience of life as that you should never trust the experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe soldiers, nothing is safe.”

Between 1914 and 1918 Britain’s generals slaughtered the most idealistic generation of young leaders in the history of England, and all to no purpose. Never in the field of human conflict have so many suffered so much to gratify the pride of so few.

Grey: “the lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.“

At the end of a strategy, conference, one of the admirals accused the first Lord of imputing the traditions of the royal Navy. “And what are they?” asked Winston. “I shall tell you in three words. Rum, sodomy, and the lash. Good morning gentlemen.”

How easily men could make things better than they are, – if they only all tried together! Much as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations – I feel more deeply every year – and can measure the feeling here, in the midst of arms – what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

His own view was evocative of Robert E Lee’s: “True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act, contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another.”

“Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.”

Churchill is the first honorary citizen of USA

The khaki election

One must never forget when misfortune come that it is quite possible. They are saving one from something much worse.