Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. — Emile Zola 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
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
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get tHen ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last… — Stephan Jenkins 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
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
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the… — Anonymous 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
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
The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone.… — Toni Morrison 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
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
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
And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests,… — Sigurd F. Olson 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
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
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
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order… — Mike Norton 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 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
Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
