Parks And Recreation Ron Swanson Quotes

#1. My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life's minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of six-sided questions, but everything that actually matters can be explained by Lindsey fucking Buckingham and Stevie fucking Nicks in four fucking minutes.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words.

Sarah Winman

#3. Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

Rob Sheffield

#4. What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?"
"I would think an infamous rake would already know."
"I was never infamous. In fact, I'm fairly standard as far as rakes go."
"The ones who deny it are the worst.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. Nobody's too old for stories
not even God himself.

Jonathan Auxier

#6. People would rather believe than know.

Edward O. Wilson

#7. More can I bear than you dare execute.

William Shakespeare

#8. Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. I may hold ye at arm's length ... But I want ye t' be mine an' mine alone. - Nate to Bertie, as they danced.

Lisa Mantchev

#10. Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.

Kenny Smith

#11. I'm a plodder, not a planner.

Dan Webster

#12. Even when I was a kid, Lo would put his hands on my cheeks and kiss me really quickly, and we'd burst into laughter afterwards. He'd end up chasing me through the fancy parties that our parents brought us to, trying to steal another.
I'd always let him catch me.

Krista Ritchie

#13. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#14. If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. I'll admit it to you now, and to anyone, anytime. I need you, Elise. I love you. You are mine. My woman, my mate, my beloved. My everything.

Tina St. John