A Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Achilles Born Fault Find Heel His Look Nowadays Only People See

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Austrian - Writer
September 13, 1830 - March 12, 1916

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

Woody Allen

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

Stan Lee

Trump's real Achilles heel, and the thing most likely to keep him out of the White House, is his brazen contempt for women (plus his lack of impulse control and inability to stay off his Android phone).

Joy Reid

When you have a child or you love somebody, that's your Achilles' heel on 'Game of Thrones,' because your enemy will find it. They'll use it again you.

Michael McElhatton

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

Jo Nesbo

All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

Jo Nesbo

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

James Callis

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

Joe Biden

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

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Erickson

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

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

Tim Berners-Lee

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

Mark Twain

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.