Achilles Heal Quotes

#1. Yes, you may ask my name but only if you can tell me: are your thighs as fine as a fresh, crisp morning in early July?

Robert Clark

#2. Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Maximilien Robespierre

#3. I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.

Peter Stillman

#5. For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

Frantz Fanon

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

Kevin Pietersen

#7. Will not taste death" means exactly what it says. Our principal confusion with it is that we persistently misinterpret everything he says as being about bodies, since we think we ourselves are bodies, and in our delusion we do not hear that he addresses us as spirit.

Rogier Fentener Van Vlissingen