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
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
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
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
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
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. — William Barrett Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,… — Dave Hickey 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
Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — Milan Kundera 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
....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
You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
