Achilles Quotes

• 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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• And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

  Homer

  Memories, Father, Grief

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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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• 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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• What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

  Thomas Browne

  Song, Names, Conjecture

  Hydriotaphia ch. 5 (1658)

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• The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Brad Pitt

  Life, Beautiful, Envy

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "The New Hugo Winners". Book by Isaac Asimov et al., p. 215, 1989.

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

  Frantz Fanon

  Violence, Heal, Miscellaneous

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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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• I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  David Benioff

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Liberty, Civil Liberties

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• All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

  Jo Nesbo

  Hero, Interesting, Heels

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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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• Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

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• 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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• 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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• I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

  Diane Kruger

  Thinking, Ideas, Knowing

  "Diane Kruger for 'Troy'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• Achilles absent was Achilles still!

  Homer

  Absence, Absent Mindedness, Stills

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

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• A man's life breath cannot come back again--
  no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
  once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

  Homer

  Death, Men, Rage From The Iliad

  Homer, Derek Jacobi (2006). “The Iliad”, Highbridge Co

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• Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

  Philip Sidney

  Bravery, Advice, Mind

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.7

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• Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

  Homer

  Son, Rage From The Iliad, Muse

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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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• The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

  Thomas C Foster

  Differences, Dying

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