Port Quotes - Page 2

• Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

  William George Jordan

  Inspirational, Fighting, Men

  William George Jordan (1910). “The Power of Purpose”

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• The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• A good resolve will make any port.

  Horace

  Adversity, Resolve

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• Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Journey, Shining, Rotten

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• Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Journey, Wind, Decision

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.370, 谷月社

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• If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

  P. D. James

  Night, Two, Sailing

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.276, Faber & Faber

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• Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

  Horatio Nelson

  Night, Order, Years

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• It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Cost, May, Captains

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• If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.

  Peter Singer

  Zoos, Real, Moving

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• O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Eye, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.101, New York Review of Books

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• Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. 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, Sea

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• O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Insomnia, Slumber

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 22

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• I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian Inspirational, Religion, Bottles

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.48, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

  Vito Fossella

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beach, Ocean, Book

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.953, Ageless Reads

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• For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

  Cory Booker

  Bridges, Growth, Railroads

  Cory Booker's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Memories, Wind, Departure

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• One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Safety, Advice, Advise

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• Common sense is not really so common.
  The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

  Antoine Arnauld

  Art, Thinking, Common Sense

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Blow, Wind, May

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• Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

  Honore de Balzac

  Wine, Cat, Oil

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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 has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

  Diane Sawyer

  Home, Night, Brave

  "Diane Sawyer Steps Down As ‘World News’ Anchor" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2014.

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