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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. — Zora Neale Hurston

Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us. — Roberto Bolano

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Words, it gave a rather convincing impression of trying to elude pursuit. The dry, faintly ironic delivery — Douglas Preston

Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. — Leo Buscaglia

If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together. — Fred Bear

There are those whose love awakens our own and those whose love undermines. As long as we are blind to this fact, true love will elude us. — B.G. Bowers

All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. — John Tyler

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit. — Edwin Percy Whipple

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection. — Anais Nin

The contour eludes me. — Paul Cezanne

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us. — Georges Bataille

Happiness eludes us if we run after it. — Mahatma Gandhi

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns. — John Templeton

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history. — Mahatma Gandhi

It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned. — Paulo Coelho

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude — T.D. Jakes

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble. — Robert Zuppke

The Christmas spirit will elude you
'til a selfless love consumes you
and the joy of giving moves you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. — Norman Maclean

Women have their own way of comforting each other, and their tactics seemed to elude male kind. — Kiersten Fay

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

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error ... — Carl Sagan

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke.
Les Miserables — Victor Hugo

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses. — Plutarch

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you, — B.K.S. Iyengar

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected. — P. J. O'Rourke

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. — George Santayana

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me. — Samantha Harvey

When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself. — Wayne Dyer

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. — William Barrett

In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us. — Carlos Wallace

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. — Emile Zola

How far is one to go to elude nothing? Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything? — Albert Camus

I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Of course. Women are agile and fast." Poppy smiled ruefully. "Not enough to elude you, it seems."
- Harry & Poppy — Lisa Kleypas

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. — Walter Lippmann

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive. — Lisa Kleypas

He'll elude them. — Stephenie Meyer

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday — Evelyn Underhill

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. — Miguel De Unamuno

Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged. — Erma Bombeck

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance. — Andre Gide