Achilles Quotes
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Achilles Quotes & Sayings
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The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
— Thomas C. Foster
When Achilles is most useful and loyal to you, that is when he has most certainly betrayed you?
— Orson Scott Card
Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.
— Madeline Miller
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.
— Madeline Miller
At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!
— Alexander The Great
I have stood upon Achilles' tomb and heard Troy doubted,
Time will doubt of Rome — George Gordon Byron
Because you made me feel, Flick. Everyone is so predictable, but you? You showed up and rocked my world.
— Emma Winters
Enjoy your little run because there's no way you get off this boat without her trying to slice your Achilles in half.
— Elle Lothlorien
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
— Cassandra Clare
I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.
— Lee Westwood
Europe's enduring localism, which had been the weak link in Christendom, became in turn the Achilles heel of the dynastic state.
— Mark Greengrass
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
— James Callis
Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had.
— Orson Scott Card
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.
— Madeline Miller
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
— Sophie Swetchine
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
— Homer
I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?
— Madeline Miller
I'll be Odysseus. You be Achilles." "Achilles dies in the end." "Then learn from his mistakes.
— Pierce Brown
Later, Achilles pressed close for a final, drowsy whisper. 'If you have to go, you know I will go with you.' We slept.
— Madeline Miller
Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.
— Madeline Miller
He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.
— Madeline Miller
Prince Achilles! Aristos Achaion! As
— Madeline Miller
I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
— Jason Isaacs
A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?
— Charles Lindbergh
We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.
— Madeline Miller
Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow.
— Adrian McKinty
Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.
— Madeline Miller
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
— Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
The arrows of love, like Achilles' sword, carry with them the remedy for the wounds they cause.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn't know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won't light.
— Madeline Miller
Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.
— Milan Kundera
Who was he if not destined for fame?
— Madeline Miller
When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.
— Madeline Miller
Books were his Achilles heel. She
— Stephen King
This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector
— Madeline Miller
Love, why have you sought the hordeof spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
— Arthur Erickson
I know, but Jesus Kira, even Achilles had a weakness.
— Tye Shirelle
As for the goddess's answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.
— Madeline Miller
This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.
— Madeline Miller
The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph
— Jeffrey LeBlanc
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
— Philip Sidney
We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.
— Madeline Miller
You've injured me, Farshooter, most deadly of the gods; And I'd punish you, if I had the power. — Homer
Ah, Lyon: the Achilles' heel of this family. She had forgotten about Lyon, and about disappearing Redmonds.
— Julie Anne Long
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
— Tim Berners-Lee
An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.
— Kevin Pietersen
Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!
— P.C. Cast
Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.
— Madeline Miller
To have Achilles's gratitude was clearly a terminal disease.
— Orson Scott Card
Women, mused Achilles. Strange creatures. They make us mad. They make us love and they make us fight.
— Tomichan Matheikal
Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.
— Wolfgang Petersen
Of this trinity of classic heroes - Ulysses, Aeneas, and Achilles - Ulysses is the least obnoxious.
— William A. Quayle
We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
— Toni Morrison
The heel of Achilles
— William Strunk Jr.
He did not fear ridicule, he had never known it.
— Madeline Miller
