Best 69 quotes in «achilles quotes» category

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.

The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sense of his privileges, no matter how small, of his rights, no matter how confined, of his personal worth, no matter how low. And to defend it, he will stop, like Achilles, at nothing.

The heat rose up my neck, wrapped fingers over my face. His hair fell around me, and I could smell nothing but him. The grain of his lips seemed to rest a hairsbreadth from mine.

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all.

This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.

Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

what is this name remembering day

well A of all youre being condecending. what did I say? it wasn't what you said it was HOW you said it and B of all I quit war forever so that's when I'm coming back when I un-forever quit war, which is never, so never

We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.

Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today.

what will you do if you go home? i dunno stuff grows out of the ground if you put stuff in it so maybe ill do that farming? yeah go home and put stuff in the ground and no one will take the girls i like and i hope you all die in this stupid war you don't mean that you don't mean your face what? leave me alone

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

Who was he if not destined for fame?

You've injured me, Farshooter, most deadly of the gods; And I'd punish you, if I had the power.

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

You're a strange kind of boy," said Achilles. "I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission," said Suriyawong. "But I have no doubt that I would fail such a test.

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

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

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will.

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

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.

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

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

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

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.

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?

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

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.

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.

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.

Because you made me feel, Flick. Everyone is so predictable, but you? You showed up and rocked my world.

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

...all the grace I saw then was his own: simple, unadorned, glorious.

As for the goddess’s answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.

Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation." "What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?" "An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife." Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked. "Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong. Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then began to polish it. "You wanted me to die," said Achilles quietly. "I expected you to solve your own problems," said Suriyawong.

Briseis blinked, shaking her head in disbelief. 'You have taken everything from me. My husband. My brothers. My father. You have given me no word of my mother. There is nowhere else for me to go.' 'I expect too much,' he stated. 'Their faces fade from my memory,' Briseis said, quietly. 'Without them, I have nothing.

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.

For Achilles, the death of Patroclus pushed him into a fury, but it was not only grief that drove him. It was also a sense of shame and guilt because he had not been there to protect his friend. Sometimes men in combat feel this sort of survivor’s guilt even though, realistically, they could have done nothing to prevent their comrade’s death.

He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight.