quotes about Achilles Heel

“That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.”

“Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of "unperturbedness" or quietude.”

Source : Sextus (Empiricus.) (1933). “Sextus Empiricus”, Loeb Classical Library

“And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.”

“If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.”

“I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.”

“The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.”

“A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.”

“Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.”

“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”

“The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.”