Port Quotes - Page 3

• There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Men, Two

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• Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivation, Eye, May

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• It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.490, Delphi Classics

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• If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

  Neal Asher

  Technology, People, Dying

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• O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
  One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Ocean, Boat

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.248

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• Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

  Will Eisner

  Rivers, Secret, Curiosity

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• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Creativity, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.144

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• The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

  Evan Esar

  Girl, Men, Sailor

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Loss, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.92

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• How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Home, Land, Wife

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• I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Games, Linux, Return

  "Ryan C. Gordon and Michael Simms (2. Ryan C. Gordon)". Interview with Robin Heggelund Hansen, www.tek.no. March 10, 2009.

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• Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

  Horatio Nelson

  Neutrality, Break, Made

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.223

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• Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Maturity, Cities

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• The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Waiting, Suitable, Universe

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• To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, Touching

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• A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Men, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Oct 31, 2014

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• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hope, Impossible, Standing Alone

  'A Summer Night' l. 68

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• I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.

  Thom Yorke

  Girl, Spices, Said

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• A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

  Albert Einstein

  Together, Bombs, Politics

  Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2 Aug. 1939 [delivered 11 Oct. 1939].

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• And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Cargo, Threat, Frank

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• It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.

  Nick Kroll

  New York, Couple, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.

  Julian Baggini

  Home, Responsibility, Islands

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

  Robert Crandall

  Believe, World, Pilots

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• The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

  William Gibson

  Color, Sky, Television

  Neuromancer ch. 1 (1984)

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• If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Rising

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