Weigh Anchor Quotes

“good person could do great things with money. Like helping a neighbor get back on their feet after a storm or accident.”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor

“The laws applied only to the average, law-abiding citizen.”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor

“That was the biggest flaw in American gun laws—they only applied to those who didn’t actually break the law. Most guns used in crimes were stolen or bought illegally from a thief on a street corner for drug money. To expect the criminal, who habitually committed crimes against society, to obey more stringent gun laws was just plain dumb.”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor

“Before the roads, dikes, and canals were built, fresh water in the lower third of Florida moved slowly south, unimpeded by anything man-made. The tall sawgrass and the ecosystem it created scrubbed the slow-moving water clean like a giant water filter. The Glades covered more than four thousand square miles and, aside from the occasional stand of bald cypress and mangrove, it was virtually treeless.”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor

“We few, we happy few,” he whispered softly, not having to overcome a single sound from the audience. “We band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England, now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor

“McDermitt be willing to testify?” I knew the dance. It wasn’t just a Keys problem. Cops in every city and town were overworked, understaffed, and grossly underpaid. It’d only gotten worse over the last few years due to the pandemic and the government’s inability to handle it. The problem was pervasive in every facet of society—boarded-up restaurants, shuttered movie theaters, skyrocketing home prices due to less inventory being built, slow service everywhere due to understaffing, first responders pulling double duty… The list went on and on.”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor

“There was something about being out on the water early in the morning that always put me at ease. With a solid boat under my feet, flying across the glassy surface of the shallows was akin to nirvana.”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor

“But”
― Wayne Stinnett, Weigh Anchor