Elude quotes
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Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
-- Andre Gide -
We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.
-- Anita Moorjani -
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you,
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.
-- Bell Hooks -
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
-- Evelyn Underhill -
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
-- Fiona Shaw -
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If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.
-- Fred Bear -
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
-- George Santayana -
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
-- Georges Bataille -
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
-- Georges Bataille -
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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.
-- Ibn Arabi -
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
-- James Dobson -
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
-- Jean Genet -
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The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.
-- K.P. Yohannan -
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are.
-- Lynn Grabhorn -
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley -
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...
-- Nick Hornby -
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
-- Norman Maclean -
....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.
-- Patricio Aylwin -
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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
-- Plutarch -
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
-- Richard Owen -
Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.
-- Robert Zuppke -
If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.
-- Steve Coogan -
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The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
-- Walter Lippmann -
When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.
-- Wayne Dyer -
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
-- William Barrett
