Elude Quotes

109 Elude quotes by 94 unique authors

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. — James Dobson
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence. — George Santayana
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. — George Santayana
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. — Mason Cooley
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers… — Jean Genet
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one… — Maxine Hong Kingston
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History… — Richard Owen
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working… — Fiona Shaw
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we… — M. Scott Peck
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the… — Daniel Dennett
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We… — Jeanette Winterson
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. — Leo Buscaglia
And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife… — Sigurd F. Olson
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling… — William Wordsworth
You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it eludes such investigation.… — Pablo Picasso
The contour eludes me. — Paul Cezanne
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong… — Hjalmar Schacht
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone. — Paul Auster
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide

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