#roma

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#citizen #discipline #feel #first #formed

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#catholic #desperation #go #heaven #heretic

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#aura #classical #desire #got #i

Hypothetically speaking let's say you were dreaming, what would happen next? ↗

— Monique Snyman

#fantasy #romance #werewolves #dreams

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#composed #discoveries #discrete #electricity #electromagnetic

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#certain #characteristic #chemical #come #conditions

The price of love is always just above that what your heart can afford ↗

— Colin Tegerdine

#passion #romance #love

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#mush #romance #stifling #strive #those

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#fiction #forget #found #go #good

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#any #crazy #dance #drive #dude