Top 22 Achilles Glory Quotes
#1. You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.
Gore Vidal
#2. I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.
Richard Gere
#3. It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.
Erik Larson
#4. I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.
Eike Batista
#5. There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler
#7. Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#8. As the Takers see it, the gods gave man the same choice they gave Achilles: a brief life of glory, or a long, uneventful life in obscurity. And the Takers chose a brief life of glory.
Daniel Quinn
#9. Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
J. C. Watts
#10. She appears sunny, a quality that Mirabelle can call upon only for special occasions.
Steve Martin
#11. Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.
Thad Cochran
#12. Butt fucking the American dream so you can buy cheap T-shirts at Old Navy. Isn't life beautiful?
Shane Kuhn
#13. There is an unseen life that dreams us; it knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize, and we need have no fear of change.
John O'Donohue
#14. With him died a story
That will not be retold:
How, forsaking glory,
Achilles grows old
While Hector dusts his trophies
Behind high walls-
For in his unsung strophes
Troy never falls
R.S. Gwynn
#15. No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.
Neale Donald Walsch
#16. At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!
Alexander The Great
#17. While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.
Tim O'Reilly
#19. Dr. Timothy Shutt, in the context of the Illiad, explains the larger meaning of armor in Greek culture. It is the visible reputation of the warrior -- his gravitas, his wake. This allows another warrior to go out and win victories in the armor of Achilles.
Timothy B. Shutt
#20. God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.
John Constantine
#21. Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Felicity Huffman
#22. I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.
Martha Plimpton