A Quote by Woody Allen

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

Woody Allen

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Achilles Achilles Heel Body Entire Had Heel Only

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Woody Allen
American - Director
Born: December 1, 1935

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Homer

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

Jo Nesbo

All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

Jo Nesbo

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

James Callis

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

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

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

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

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

Tim Berners-Lee

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

Condoleezza Rice

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

Thomas C Foster

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.