“Achilles pauses, looks over his shoulder at the masses of men behind him, turns back, looks past Zeus toward Olympos and the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead. I loved him more than any other comrade. I loved him like my head,… — Homer Copy Share Image
...but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy.… — Gil Blake Copy Share Image
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that… — Dana Carvey 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
“Lions don't come to terms with men, the wolf don't see eye to eye with the lamb - they are enemies to… — Homer 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 master always keeps a piece of learning--that is to say, a piece of the student's ignorance--up his sleeve. I understood that,… — Jacques Rancière 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his,… — Caroline Taggart Copy Share Image
The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Maybe we’re assigning Achilles supernatural powers,” said Petra. “He isn’t a god. Not even a hero. Just a sick kid.” “No,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Personal integrity in Achilles achieves the form and authority of immanent divinity, with its inviolable, lonely singleness, half repellent because of its… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
“One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?" "I… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“You’re a strange kind of boy,” said Achilles. “I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission,” said… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete! — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The thing with the Achilles is it stays with you forever. So now, I'm invested in every person I come across who… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
Mr. Peabody is so exceptional in so many things, but he's got to have an Achilles' heel... he can't be perfect. — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
![“My friend Patroclus, whom I loved, is dead. I loved him more than any other comrade. I loved him like my head, my life, myself. I lost him, killed him. [. . .] . . .my Patroclus, son of Menoetius.” quote by Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/423/homer-357_achilles_my-friend-patroclus-whom-i-loved-is-dead_557116.jpg)
