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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. -- Joe Biden
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. -- Arthur Erickson
Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him. -- Wolfgang Petersen
The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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
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
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
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
Achilles absent was Achilles still! -- Homer
All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel. -- Jo Nesbo
Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today. -- Stan Lee
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. -- Frantz Fanon
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. -- Homer
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude. -- Philip Sidney
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
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors? -- Plutarch
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
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
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
Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles! -- P. C. Cast
All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel. -- Jo Nesbo
I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run. -- Jason Isaacs
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel. -- James Callis
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will. -- Homer
Achilles only had an Achilles heel. I have an entire Achilles body. -- Woody Allen
At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory! -- Alexander the Great
The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying. -- Thomas C Foster
If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete! -- Eddie Izzard
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? -- Hilda Doolittle
We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women. -- Toni Morrison
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory . -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable -- Homer
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
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
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
I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me. -- Jimmy Page
I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles. -- Douglas Carter Beane
One of my biggest Achillesâ?? heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think thereâ??s hope for everyone. -- Kanye West
Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you, because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light hit on their damned faces, INTENSELY. -- Maverick
It's all about how bad you want to come back. (The Achilles' is) not tight anymore. I'm like a wild dog about getting back on the field. I'm hungrier than I've ever been. -- Takeo Spikes
...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
The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel. -- Andy Cohen
There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles," Chiron said. "And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think? -- Madeline Miller
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
The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists. -- Kristin Gore
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed. -- Philip Sidney
Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck. -- Nancy Dunnan
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
I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense. -- Beck
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
You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points. -- Rachel Weisz
Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region. -- David Malouf
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall. -- Dwight Longenecker
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
Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems. -- Patrick Ewing
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. -- Jonathan Swift
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
An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again. -- Kevin Pietersen
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
At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get. -- Russell Crowe
In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price. -- Eula Biss

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