“I fear that he might be my Achilles’ heel. My Romeo to Juliet, my Jack to Rose, my Noah to Allie.” — Anke van Zweel Copy Share Image
“I don't understand what the big deal with Achilles is. Diomedes is the one running around murdering everybody.” — Davin on the Iliad Copy Share Image
“I’m on his death list, too.” “Then why are you still alive?” asked Peter. “Because, contrary to widespread belief, Achilles is not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I had really had tendonitis in both Achilles. You can run through it with one leg, but not two. — Kadeena Cox Copy Share Image
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Achilles' absolute, like every heroic absolute, finds its telos or fulfillment, not in dislocating the world as it is, but in self-destruction. — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,' Chiron said. 'And perhaps it is a greater grief, after all, to… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were… — Dwight Longenecker Copy Share Image
“You think Achilles was of impressive descent? Touch me one more time. Maybe it’s time we found out what the daughter of… — Elisabeth Hewer Copy Share Image
Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking… — Patrick Ewing Copy Share Image
“But you were the one who really taught him healing," Achilles said. "I was." "You do not mind that the snake gets… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting --" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother's lyre. He had brought it with him. 'I wish… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Do you know the rest?"Doug asked me expectantly. "What?The Achilles was a dysfuctional psychopath? Yeah I know that." "Well, yeah, everyone knows… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“I have done it,' she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“My first sight of the fabled warrior was a surprise. He was not a mighty-thewed giant, like Ajax. His body was not… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“The only difference between Zeus’s thunderbolt and Achilles’ heel is the perspective of the person telling the story.” — Joshua Moore Copy Share Image
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to… — Lee Westwood Copy Share Image
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a… — Homer Copy Share Image
“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“I listened and did not speak. Achilles’ eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as you win Monaco, that's the one. In my ten years of Formula One, I've only won here once. This… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
“With him died a story That will not be retold: How, forsaking glory, Achilles grows old While Hector dusts his trophies Behind… — R.S. Gwynn Copy Share Image
“The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell nothing but… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
The Wrath of Achilles had probably been an epic subject for generations when Homer found it, and the germ of its meaning,… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
