Elude Quotes

109 Elude quotes by 94 unique authors

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you. — Steve Coogan
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? — William Osler
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail. — Anna Quindlen
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power… — Richard Rohr
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. — Miguel de Unamuno
Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes… — Nick Hornby
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. — Norman Maclean
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables — Victor Hugo
Kids chase the love that eludes them. — Mitch Albom
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the… — Norman Maclean
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware… — Lionel Shriver
I am a happy camper so I guess Iâ€™m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it… — Henry David Thoreau
I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me. — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth,… — Karen Armstrong
GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of… — Robert Frost
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… — Alain de Botton

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