I think love is one of the most elusive things in the…

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration…

— Toby Jones

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing…

— David Nicholls

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take…

— Mike Aquilina

We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless…

— Anthony Lawlor

I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by…

— Edward Teller

One of the capabilities, which seems to be the most difficult for aspiring leaders to maste is realistic optimism. It requires one to recognize…

— Justin Menkes

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

— Francis Ponge

Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial…

— Madeleine Vionnet

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If…

— Robert A. Johnson

Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest…

— Neale Donald Walsch

This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against…

— Chris Hedges

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And…

— Nathan Lane

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

— Carl Sandburg

“Like wind and fire, water and soil, we used one another, to grow and blossom. Love was a dream, elusive as were we.”

— Iva Hotko

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other…

— Anonymous