Achilles Heel Quotes

• The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, High Heels, Typical

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

  Joe Manchin

  Jobs, Believe, High Heels

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• Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

  Judy Biggert

  Leadership, Energy, World

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• The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  High Heels, Names, Important

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• All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

  Jo Nesbo

  Hero, Interesting, Achilles

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• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  Dana Carvey

  Money, Hurt, Two

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• Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Liberty, Achilles

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• If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

  Jayson Williams

  Beer, Thinking, Careers

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• In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

  Bill Gross

  Doors, Icons, Might

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• Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

  James Callis

  Ambition, Political, Achilles

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• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• 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

  Running, Sides, Achilles

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• Achilles absent was Achilles still!

  Homer

  Achilles, Absence, Absent Mindedness

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.476

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• Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

  William Lilly

  Inspirational, Motivation, Ambition

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• Achilles only had an Achilles heel, I have an entire Achilles body.

  Woody Allen

  Body, Achilles, Heels

  Mighty Aphrodite, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Oxford, Ego

  "The Best Kanye-Isms From Yeezy's Oxford Speech" by Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

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• 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 beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Sunset, Forget

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• As long as you win Monaco, that's the one. In my ten years of Formula One, I've only won here once. This is my second time.Every year, it feels like this is your Achilles heel. You almost have it and then you don't. It's such a hard race to win.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Winning, Race, Years

  Source: www.manforhimself.com

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• Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Healthy, Growth, Cost

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• When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Rivers, Focus

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• On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but on Achilles' Heel I would just start writing and try to let the song and my sub-conscience determine the direction. which is a goofy way of saying I tried not to decide before hand what the song and or the characters would do and be like.

  David Bazan

  Song, Writing, Character

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• First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.

  Gil Blake

  Winning, Pressure, Firsts

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• I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Real, Thinking, Oil

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes over and over again you start slowly hating yourself.

  Karen Elson

  Hate, Becoming, Anecdotes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Children, Conquer The World, Single Life

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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