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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. -- Miguel de Unamuno
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
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. -- Richard Owen
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. -- Norman Maclean
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 forever a harmonious conception of memory. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. -- Georges Bataille
But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. -- Hjalmar Schacht
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. -- Evelyn Underhill
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. -- Norman Maclean
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. -- Ovid
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? -- William Osler
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. -- James Dobson
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. -- George Santayana
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. -- Jimmy Breslin
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. -- Andre Gide
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
Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become. -- Jim Rohn
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight! -- William Wordsworth
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it. -- William Hazlitt
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action. -- Maurice Allais
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. -- Michael Musto
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials. -- Michael Musto
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us. -- Daniel Dennett
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. -- Fiona Shaw
The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you. -- Mahesh Babu
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes. -- Berkeley Breathed
Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble. -- Robert Zuppke
I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us. -- Georges Bataille
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. -- George Santayana
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude -- T. D. Jakes
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. -- Walter Lippmann
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo
...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself. -- Wayne Dyer
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
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
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
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 youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults. -- Ian Somerhalder
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
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
Freedom, peace, and inner joy will continue to elude us until we become aware of our real truth, without hiding ourselves or being ashamed of what we are. -- Lynn Grabhorn
Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years. -- Stephan Jenkins
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it. -- David Hume
The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime. -- Sam Harris
Like water leaking slowly through a dike to become a steady trickle or a flood, words and ideas inexorably elude the censor's grasp. (Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature) -- Margaret Bald

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