Achilles Quotes - Page 3

• As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into "the Negros of a new racism."

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Racism, Humanity, Philosopher

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists hurts themselves as much, if not more, than they benefit from the attention they derive from their actions. Con artists usually benefit from misleading others without sacrificing anything themselves. All my girls have sacrificed plenty.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Girl, Hurt, Sacrifice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Art, Writing, World

  Les Natchez preface (1826)

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• After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, Fire, Light

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.

  James A. Michener

  Horse, Children, War

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

  Oliver Stone

  Hero, Men, Greek

  Source: www.chud.com

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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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• The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
  Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.

  Zeno of Elea

  Science, Race, Example

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• 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

  Grief, Thinking, Law

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like Achilles and Jason.” “Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hero, Angel, Fate

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Princess, Hero, Fate

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

  Alexander the Great

  Youth, Glory, Found

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• 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

  Dog, Fields, Want

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• 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

  Confidence, Blow, Vulnerable

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• 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

  Self, Nurse, Care

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• 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

  Thinking, Greed, Bucks

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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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• An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Danger, Heal, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, May, Isle

  "Ulysses" l. 59 (1842)

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• 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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• If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Block

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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 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, Muscles

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• 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

  Fall, Kind, Lows

  Source: collider.com

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