Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
I've played a long time and had success in a lot of areas. The one thing that eludes a lot of us is a championship. The teams that get there have guys willing to make adjustments, to sacrifice. I'm willing.
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 and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
