Quotes About Elusive

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

One of our elusive killer's critical advantages was the ingrained habit among police agencies not to share information with one another.

Our primary adversary is easy to kill," he added. "He's just very hard to find."31

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 do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

Headline writers love the phrase 'Power Grab,' but you can't really grab it, can you? Power is a greased watermelon, a wisp of smoke, difficult to grasp, harder to hold, impossible to control while getting both feet down in bounds.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Happiness was such an elusive thing to spot: it was like a camouflaged moth that might or might not be hidden in the forest in front of you, or might have flown away.

Like all creatures in the universe, they were only waiting for the elusive light that would grant them purpose.

Porque Lucie, la mujer a la que tanto amé y que se me escapó de un modo totalmente incomprensible en el último momento, es, claro está, la diosa de la huida, la diosa de la carrera vana, la diosa del vapor, y sigue teniendo mi cabeza entre sus manos.

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home.

Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them. —Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering

Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

Joy, that elusive, priceless commodity, was once again his.

My father, on the other hand, is a shadowy figure.

A good man is hard to find," she says finally. "Do you mean the O'Connor story? The one on your desk. It's an awfully dark thing to bring up at a time like this." "No, I mean you. I've been looking forever. It was only two trains and a boat away.

She resembled a rainbow and the pot of gold; rarely observed and never discovered.

As in a dream a man is not able to follow one who runs 200  from him, nor can the runner escape, nor the other pursue him, so he could not run him down in his speed, nor the other get clear.

Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know.