Achilles Heel Quotes:

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

- Woody Allen

topic: Body, Achilles, Achilles Heel

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

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Artist, High Heels, Typical, Achilles Heel, Settlers

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

- Joe Manchin

topic: Jobs, Believe, High Heels, West Virginia, Achilles Heel

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

- Judy Biggert

topic: Leadership, Energy, World, Achilles Heel

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

- Tim Berners-Lee

topic: High Heels, Names, Important, Server, Domain Names

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

- Jo Nesbo

topic: Hero, Interesting, Achilles, Achilles Heel

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

- Dana Carvey

topic: Money, Hurt, Two, Achilles Heel

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

- Joe Biden

topic: Thinking, Liberty, Achilles, Achilles Heel

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

- Jayson Williams

topic: Beer, Thinking, Careers, Achilles Heel

In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

- Bill Gross

topic: Icons, Doors, Might, Achilles Heel

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

- James Callis

topic: Ambition, Political, Achilles, Political Ambition, Achilles Heel

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart, Letting Go Of Anger, Self Forgiveness

I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.

- Lee Westwood

topic: Running, Sides, Achilles, Calves, Achilles Heel

Achilles absent was Achilles still!

- Homer

source: Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.476

topic: Achilles, Absence, Absent Mindedness, Achilles Heel

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

- William Lilly

topic: Ambition, Heaven, Fingers, Achilles Heel

One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

- Kanye West

source: "The Best Kanye-Isms From Yeezy's Oxford Speech" by Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

topic: Thinking, Oxford, Ego, Oxford University, Achilles Heel

But don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God.

- J. D. Salinger

source: j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

topic: Beautiful, Sunset, Forget, Achilles Heel

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

source: Source: www.manforhimself.com

topic: Winning, Race, Years, Monaco, Achilles Heel

Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.

- Robert Heilbroner

topic: Healthy, Growth, Cost, Achilles Heel

When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all

- Rick Riordan

topic: Hurt, Rivers, Focus, Weak Spots, Achilles Heel

On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but on Achilles' Heel I would just start writing and try to let the song and my sub-conscience determine the direction. which is a goofy way of saying I tried not to decide before hand what the song and or the characters would do and be like.

- David Bazan

topic: Song, Writing, Character, Achilles Heel

First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.

- Gil Blake

topic: Winning, Pressure, Firsts, Achilles Heel

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

- Condoleezza Rice

source: Source: www.cnbc.com

topic: Real, Thinking, Oil, Foreign Oil, Achilles Heel

There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes over and over again you start slowly hating yourself.

- Karen Elson

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Hate, Becoming, Anecdotes, Hating Yourself, Achilles Heel

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

- Charles Lindbergh

source: "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

topic: Children, Conquer The World, Single Life, Achilles Heel

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

- B. H. Liddell Hart

topic: Strong, Military, War, Opposing, Achilles Heel

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

- George Hamilton

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Singers, Slipping, Known, Achilles Heel

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.

- Nancy Dunnan

topic: Thinking, Greed, Bucks, Achilles Heel