I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
“Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that… — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect,… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers… — Mitch Albom 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 globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers.… — Patricio Aylwin Copy Share Image
