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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. -- Mason Cooley
If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you. -- Steve Coogan
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. -- Paul Auster
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
Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us. -- Meghan Daum
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 willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert. -- Wayne Dyer
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. -- Andre Gide
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. -- Richard Rohr
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 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. -- Michael Leunig
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. -- Marge Simon
The contour eludes me. -- Paul Cezanne
Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns. -- John Templeton
Kids chase the love that eludes them. -- Mitch Albom
Happiness eludes us if we run after it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you, -- B.K.S. Iyengar
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Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. -- Emile Zola
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. -- Barbara Tuchman
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. -- Leo Buscaglia
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. -- William Wordsworth
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses. -- Plutarch
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. -- William Barrett
When we hold onto worry, regret, and anger, peace of mind, strength of body, and freedom of spirit eludes us. -- Charles F. Glassman
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged. -- Erma Bombeck
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
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
Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise. -- Kevin Hearne
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone. -- Paul Auster
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind. -- Jean Genet
The wisdom of LIFE eludes even the best...For those who pass the test Life is a fest,While, its forever, A battle for the rest.. -- Sujit Lalwani
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
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory. -- K.P. Yohannan
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death. -- Alan Watts
One brain's blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive. (152) -- Thomas Lewis
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there. -- Mitch Albom

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