#achilles

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


Joe Biden


#achilles heel #civil #civil liberties #heel #liberals

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


#achilles heel #dependence #diplomacy #economic #energy

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


Kevin Pietersen


#again #could #danger #heal #playing

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


Jason Isaacs


#damaged #i #run

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake. But in the second line was a reference to Achilles, and another to Ajax, so I understood she was just addressing me in terms which she accounted fitting for a martial paladin; she knew no better. It was a common custom at that time, in the more romantic females, to see their soldier husbands and sweethearts as Greek heroes, instead of the whore-mongering, drunken clowns most of them were. However, the Greek heroes were probably no better, so it was not far off the mark.


George MacDonald Fraser


#ajax #ancient-greece #greek-heroes #hero #martiality

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


#achilles heel #fame #free #heel #hurt

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


#calf #down #goes #heel #i

But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.


Homer


#the-odyssey #death

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


#greek #homer #iliad #patroclus #priam

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


Arthur Erickson


#achilles heel #americas #confidence #cultural #heel