Vagop’s most recent Quotables

“You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays.”

“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight in one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome, ‘Do your worst, for I will do Mine!’” –

War does not decide who is right, but who is left.”

You are never a loser until you quit trying.”

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. -

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Basic success in the military that applies to life: Be in the right place at the right time in the right uniform

“When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. Now, in the twilight of my life, misunderstanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time, once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward.”
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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. ‘Do your worst, for I will do mine!’ Then the fates will know you as we know you” –

A girl in a bikini is like a loaded pistol on your coffee table – there’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it.” -

“Rules are made ​​for the interpretation of wise men and the obedience of fools”-

Life gives you the test, then the lesson

The storm reveals the sailor

On the plains of apathy, bleach the bones of the victor who sat down to rest.

“Most men die at 25, we just don’t bury them until they are 70.”

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –

“There are three kinds of men: the one who learns by reading, the few who learn by observance, and the rest who have to pee on the electric fence themselves.”

The soldier who has died due to the failure of his officer is a crime before God. So study hard, young Lieutenant. Prepare yourself well. Burn the midnight oil so that in your old age you will not look down at your hands to find his blood red upon them.