Elusive Quotes

191 Elusive quotes by 175 unique authors

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive. — Lisa Kleypas
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect--… — William Styron
We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated;… — Lynne Truss
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according… — Melissa de la Cruz
Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, “Can you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?” “Can do,” Janco said with a smile. “Lieutenant Darren, let… — Maria V. Snyder
Dear John, There's so much I want to say to you, but I'm not sure where I should begin. Should I start by telling you… — Nicholas Sparks
There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can… — Werner Herzog
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance,… — W S Merwin
Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I… — Steven Erikson
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than… — Alan Watts
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe. — Carl Sandburg
There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of… — Albert Einstein
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes.… — Jeanette Winterson
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all… — Elwyn Brooks White
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in… — Philip Yancey
Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most. — Brandon Mull
There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right… — Brian Kenny
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the… — Eknath Easwaran
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. — J. Patrick Lewis
That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that… — Jackie Earle Haley
Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it… — Ryan Holmes
We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting… — Dani Shapiro
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets… — Jack W. Szostak

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