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The USB/AV port is where you plug in the camera's USB cable to transfer images and videos to a computer. You — Alexander White

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. — Zig Ziglar

The whole international community will be united in condemning what they have done. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson Of Port Ellen

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea. — Patrick O'Brian

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Staying safely at your home port is narrow thinking. — Ken Marlin

The worse the passage the more welcome the port. — Thomas Fuller

Set your sail to the big world, to the big ports but never forget your little world, your little port! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I firmly believe that if you're really unhappy with something, then you should go ahead and change it. — Whitney Port

An attack on one is an attack on all. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson Of Port Ellen

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. — Henry Ward Beecher

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet. — Kenneth Kaye

By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving it back to truck — Marc Levinson

Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction. — Louise Penny

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. — Seneca The Elder

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher — Evelyn Waugh

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

I have to believe in myself. I have to be my biggest advocate or I would crumble. — Whitney Port

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. — Iris Murdoch

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable. — Seneca The Younger

I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again! — Whitney Port

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down. — Leonard Of Port Maurice

She wasn't just old, not anymore. She'd sailed right past old and into the port called Decrepitude. — Richard Gleaves

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India. — Gautam Adani

Turkey, fearing attack by Russia, took Germany's side and declared war against the czar by bombarding the port of Odessa. — Joseph E. Persico

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please ... — Agatha Christie

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode. — Ambrose Bierce

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port
heaven,
Friend, what years could us divide? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est. — Seneca The Younger

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

I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates. — Whitney Port

Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes. — Michael Port

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. — Michel De Montaigne

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. — Tom Robbins

Good thoughts without actions are like a ship stuck in a port. — Debasish Mridha

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead — George Robertson, Baron Robertson Of Port Ellen

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

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

Trusting the vision without forcing the way is a lesson worth learning in every port. — Colleen Mariotti

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. — Henry Adams

When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found. — Ernest Hemingway,

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. — William Gibson

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset. — Pete Townshend

She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port. — Zora Neale Hurston

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. — Henry Mayhew

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity. — Yehuda Amichai

Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight. — Marina Tavares Dias

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession. — Thomas Aquinas

Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team. — Neal Stephenson

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system. — Anthony Foxx

You are the captain of your ship that never comes in — Daniel Lee Edstrom

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales. — Rose George

Every ship needs a port because unlike ships waves never get tired! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You cannot expect to reach port if you are faithful in your prayers and meditations for a time, and then for a time you forget God. — Emmet Fox

As Michel de Montaigne observed, "No wind favors him who has no destined port. — John C. Maxwell

To port the helm carries the head to port. — Douglas Frazar

that were to drive us to the port to — Isabel Allende

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities. — Kendrick Meek

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca.

Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers. — China Cancio

The boys just want to out-do each other with sounds their bodies can make. Sheesh. — Cynthia Port

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Samuel Jackson

Small thoughts fear the future. Big thoughts are the future. — Michael Port

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure. — Cornelia Parker

Space - First coin-op arcade game - port of Spacewar! — Ernest Cline

We need to be willing to be comfortable with discomfort in order to grow. — Michael Port

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. — Oliver Goldsmith

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction. — Hal Moore

Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We don't get contacts, we don't find contacts, we don't have contacts; we make connections with real people. — Michael Port

The eternal loves of the high seas ended when the port came in sight. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats — Honore De Balzac

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure. — Eduardo Galeano

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. — Pat Conroy

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler. — Evan Esar

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing. — Rose George

If you can raise a family, then you can build a business. — Michael Port

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. — Soren Kierkegaard

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port — Charles Spurgeon

Marrying. Oh, God. Buoyed temporarily by port wine and cream lace, I had momentarily managed to ignore the significance of the occasion. — Diana Gabaldon

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

May the sun smile upon you and all storms find you in port — Brent Weeks

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas

She reached out her arms to Blackie. The beautiful siren was calling her weary sailor safely to port. — Karen Cecil Smith

You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

To reach a port we must set sail — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line. — Alix Christie