Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts,… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then… — Baba Amte Copy Share Image
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Observe the behavior of the butterfly, and chase no one, for they will only elude you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is she to… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get tHen ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
