Troy Achilles Quotes

#1. This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

Madeline Miller

#2. Peleus lived to a good age and survived his famous son Achilles, an initiate of the Centaur Horse fraternity, who was killed at the siege of Troy.

Robert Graves

#3. There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' " finished Mara.

Raymond E. Feist

#4. Even in a perfect world, where everyone was equal I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequal

Elvis Costello

#5. If you have been harboring anger or bitterness or jealousy in your heart toward someone - a parent, an ex-spouse, a boss - hand it over to Christ, and ask Him to help you let it go.

Billy Graham

#6. This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector

Madeline Miller

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I have stood upon Achilles' tomb
and heard Troy doubted,
Time will doubt of Rome

George Gordon Byron

#10. After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

#11. Something is happening inside StarClan. All the Clans will be affected. This time will cannot rely on other Clans.

Erin Hunter

#12. In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side

Bob Marley

#13. Have faith in the truth. Faith can move mountains.

Walter E. Jacobson

#14. The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

Madeline Miller

#15. 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

#16. 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.

David Benioff

#17. There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. When we decide to see things one way we are often incapable of seeing them any other way.

Sara Douglass