For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?' I am made of memories. 'Speak, then.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again. — Kevin Pietersen 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
“The only difference between Zeus’s thunderbolt and Achilles’ heel is the perspective of the person telling the story.” — Joshua Moore 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
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
“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
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like… — Bill Gross 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“He stands apart with Patroclus, his beloved through all eternity, and Patroclus - who loves Achilles but not as much as he… — Elizabeth Cook Copy Share Image
“When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
