Randy Wayne White > Quotes

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”
― Randy Wayne White

“I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.”
― Randy Wayne White, Ten Thousand Islands

“Humanity has a limited biological capacity for change but an unlimited capacity for spiritual change. The only human institution incapable of evolving spiritually is a cemetery.”
S.M. Tomlinson, One Fathom Above Sea Level”
― Randy Wayne White

“I have no choice but to believe in free will" Tomlinson”
― Randy Wayne White, The Mangrove Coast

“In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality”
― Randy Wayne White, The Mangrove Coast

“I think if you're standing on thin ice anyway, why not dance?”
― Randy Wayne White

“Racism requires lots and lots of dumb emotion, plus a dose of stupidity.”
― Randy Wayne White, Shark River

“but I’d already accepted her as what Tomlinson once defined as a PBR—a person who is reality based. One night, over beer, we’d kicked around the definition and more or less refined it. A PBR wasn’t just a brand of blue-collar beer, it was also someone who was not dominated by neurosis, ambition, or ego. It was a person who was relatively honest, rational, and reasonable most of the time; a man or woman who had a general sense of his or her own worth and limitations, who acknowledged the worth of others, who demonstrated a sense of humor,”
― Randy Wayne White, Twelve Mile Limit

“If you’d spent your life abusing drugs, like a normal person, your skills as a liar would be more highly evolved.”
― Randy Wayne White, Dead Silence

“Tomlinson often refers to her as living proof of his own private theory: The world’s most beautiful women are always well into their thirties, forties, or fifties because only the experience of living and prevailing day after day can provide the necessary emotional texture and depth of understanding that Tomlinson’s definition of “beauty” requires.”
― Randy Wayne White, Twelve Mile Limit

“It’s the days that pass by unnoticed that are probably the best days of our lives.”
― Randy Wayne White, Salt River

“•   • IF MY CLIENTS offer a business”
― Randy Wayne White, Deceived

“Anger is a common derivative of fear.”
― Randy Wayne White, Twelve Mile Limit

“In this book, Doc Ford references “snag fishing” for tarpon in Boca Grande Pass on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Thanks to Kenneth W. Wright—Florida Environmentalist of the Decade, in the minds of many anglers—this “jigging” technique has finally been exposed as a fraud. Mr. Wright, and a group of knowledgeable,”
― Randy Wayne White, Bone Deep

“Smith, parts of your story don’t match up with what we found”
― Randy Wayne White, Deceived

“When your emotions or your behavior are contrary to your own self-image, it's time to stand back and reassess.”
― Randy Wayne White, Captiva

“When you have wholeheartedly accepted one vision of reality, it is very difficult to have that reality challenged, then replaced by another.”
― Randy Wayne White, Shark River

“have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.   —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938”
― Randy Wayne White, Everglades

“It is impossible to do math and be frightened at the same time.”
― Randy Wayne White, Ten Thousand Islands

“Solitude is much preferred to the more disturbing isolation of sharing loneliness with a stranger. I”
― Randy Wayne White, Shark River

“Truth was, he didn’t fear death. What terrified him was the prospect of not living.”
― Randy Wayne White, Deep Shadow

“Didn't understand the nation's habit of clubbing itself each morning with a list of tragedy and doom before trying to go cheerfully into the day. Like arsenic, it had to have a cumulative effect.”
― Randy Wayne White, Sanibel Flats

“Shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely a hundred people, and here are the ratios. There would be fifty-seven Asians, twenty-one Europeans, seven South Americans, nine Africans and eight from the U.S. Seventy of those people would be non-Christian, eighty would live below the poverty level and half the world’s wealth would be in the hands of only six people, all citizens of the United States. And only two of those hundred people would own a computer.”
― Randy Wayne White, Ten Thousand Islands

“Survival Spanish:

Your uncle's hotel sounds very nice, but I have reservations at the Holiday Inn.
El hotel de su tio debe de ser muy lindo, pero tengo reservacions en el Holiday Inn.
I would like your least expensive room.
Quisiera su habitacion menos cara.
I would like a better room.
Quisiera una habitacion mejor.
I would like any room not damaged by the recent earthquake.
Quisiera cualquier habitacion que no sufrio danos en el temblor reciente.

The local women do WHAT to cause fermentation?
Las mujures aqui hacen QUE para causar la fermentacion?
I don't question your abilities, but I am already married.
No dudo sus habilidades, pero estoy botin.
My friend is drunk and I am lost.
Mi amigo esta borracho y estoy perdido.
My friend is lost and I am drunk.
Mi amigo esta perdido y estoy borracho.
My apologies. I thought you asked me to dance.
Disculpeme. Pense que me invito a bailar.

Have I broken a law?
He violado un ley?
May I offer you the gift of money?
Puedo ofrecerle un regalito de dinero?
Did I say twenty dollars? I meant fifty.
Dije veinte dolares? Queria decir CINCUENTA!
You can have our women, but leave the plane tickets.
Pueden llevarse a nuestras majeres, pero dejen nuestros boletos de avion.”
― Randy Wayne White, Last Flight Out: True Tales Of Adventure, Travel, And Fishing

“I’m prone to exaggerate when I’m sober.”
― Randy Wayne White, Dead Silence

“When people say they don’t have time, it really means they’re not sufficiently motivated”
― Randy Wayne White, Hunter's Moon

“Excuses were for those willing to concede that weakness was their strongest ally.”
― Randy Wayne White, Mangrove Lightning

“fast synapse varietals.”
― Randy Wayne White, Tomlinson's Wake: A Doc Ford Novel

“Beauty is a genetic device: trickery that instigates competition.”
― Randy Wayne White, Dark Light

“When data does not fit comfortably into a likely chain of events, I reassemble the data into a worst-case scenario. It is my way of establishing the parameters of possibility.”
― Randy Wayne White, North of Havana