“Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.” — 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
“Achilles’ eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. “I wish he had let you all die.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego,… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
It's all about how bad you want to come back. (The Achilles' is) not tight anymore. I'm like a wild dog about… — Takeo Spikes 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
“Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“One morning, I woke to find Chiron gone. This was not unusual. He often rose before we did, to milk the goats… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“When Achilles is most useful and loyal to you, that is when he has most certainly betrayed you”?” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . — François-René de Chateaubriand 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
On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
“In spite of Agamemnon Achilles had greeted her clean heart. She decided, not her father - not even the gods - that… — Elizabeth Cook Copy Share Image
He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked… — Jayson Williams Copy Share Image
Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
Odysseus sees reality as the situation or problem before him; Achilles sees it as something in himself, and the problem is to… — Cedric H Whitman Copy Share Image
“So you’re coming along with me, increasing our risk of being identified and allowing Achilles to get his two worst nemeses with… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Briseis blinked, shaking her head in disbelief. 'You have taken everything from me. My husband. My brothers. My father. You have given… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
“Look north. Achilles on the rampart by the ditch: He lifts his face to 90; draws his breath; And from the bottom… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“warrior hero such as Ajax, Hector or Achilles must be willing to fight in hand-to-hand combat day after day. He must be… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
