Achilles Quotes - Page 4

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

  Woody Allen

  Body, Achilles Heel, Heels

  Mighty Aphrodite, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Soldier, Honor

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• In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters, I don't claim to speak for all straight people. My job as an author is to give voice to these very particular characters - these two men, in this time, and in this place

  Madeline Miller

  Jobs, Character, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

  Mary Renault

  Men, Blood, Together

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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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• When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard oftheir race, and are not deficient in girth also, we are amazed at the immense sacrifice of thews and sinews. What! these proportions, these bones,--and this their work! Hands which could have felled an ox have hewed this fragile matter which would not have tasked a lady's fingers! Can this be a stalwart man's work, who has a marrow in his back and a tendon Achilles in his heel?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sacrifice, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

  Jason Isaacs

  Running, I Can

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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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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