Top 357 Achilles Heel Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Whether it's something with a chunkier heel or a moto style, you need a great pair of boots.

I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.

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

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

If you're feeling a little down, you're never fully dressed without a strong heel. But only if you're depressed - if you need a pick-me-up.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different story!

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

I have a backbone; that doesn't make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.

The feud with Jerry Lawler was one of the best feuds I ever had. He was the perfect heel and kept his heat. People hated him.

The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.

Working heel works different for me, being Dustin Rhodes for so many years and then a giant switch of a character and everything.

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

I'm all about the high heel; I think it's the sexiest accessory ever made, including lingerie.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

For the red carpet, I like a platform heel, but for everyday, it's mostly Converse high-tops or booties with black tights.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

I'm in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It's empowering.

My fibula was cracked in half to where it was a clean break, and it was poking at the skin, to where it could have been a compound fracture. My Achilles tendon was crushed like a soda can, the whole top of my foot was ripped off the bone, and the ankle was lodged up into my shin, on both sides.

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

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?

My poor, problematic feet don't let me wear anything much over a three- or four-inch heel.

You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense." -Percy

Collaboration and collegiality does not mean bowing down. It doesn't mean being brought to heel.

I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

I am very much a perfectionist, so if I were to turn heel, I'd want to be the nastiest girls out there, where the people hated me.

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.

When you have been stuck in that heel, bad-guy role as the foreigner who never talks, you want to get out of there, have fun, and just be you.

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.

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

Every stylish girl knows that when the sun goes down, the heel goes up.

Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.

It's very humbling to know that the industry has cast me as the greatest heel in the history of the business.

Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times.

For shoes I try to choose a bootie style and opt for a heel that looks good but allows me to get around.

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.

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again.

My whole idea, to me, is if you're a heel in wrestling, you should not having a band playing for when you come out and people will react in a positive way.

I appreciate my true fans for enjoying me in what I do every day, whether interviews or playing heel. They are smart and nice people.

I'm a heel man. There's no doubt about that. I've always done heels for my shows, ever since the first in 2008.

My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

When I'm not working I do go to the gym and do my cardio but nothing beats the high-heel workout!

I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

If you're selling t-shirts as a heel - you're selling them - then you've failed miserably.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.