Eluded Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… — George Santayana
Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my… — Alice Stewart
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when… — Alexander Hamilton
I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed from me too.… — William J. Clinton
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me — Christina Ricci
Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. — Elwyn Brooks White
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my… — Baba Amte
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be… — Robert Menzies
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years,… — Mary McAleese
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert… — Ron Suskind
Since humans first huddled around campfires, stories have been told of wild horses with wind in their manes, fire in their eyes and freedom in… — Terri Farley
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere… — Philip K. Dick
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators… — Richard Perle
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know… — Bill Dixon
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded… — Emily Carr
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven… — Charles Krauthammer
I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of… — Liza Minnelli
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… — Muriel Barbery
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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