Quotes About Elusive

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

This is what I know: memory is the same as water. It permeates and saturates. Quenches and satiates. It can hold you up or pull you under; render you weightless or drown you. It is tangible, but elusive.

I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.

My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand.

A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me.

Because hardly anyone has seen 'Aaranya Kaandam,' it's like a mystical Yeti.

The problem with scientific speculations is that the correct answers to our questions will always elude us as long as we continue using equations to attempt to explain what can only be perceived by the mind using its faculty to perceive input from Tao.

A part of him felt she would always have been a mystery to him, elusive and enigmatic, but at the same time, she was comfortable as if they had been together for years.

It's hardly a wonder that they call London the most elusive city in the world. Its character changes from one street to the next. There's no rhyme or reason, no pattern to the place. You could take six people at random from the centre of town, ask them to write down all the places they visit regularly and find that their circles of movement don't overlap at more than one or two points. Each of them would see a different city.

By declining to lie, even as far as possible to himself, and by his determination to seek elusive but verifiable truth, he showed how much can be accomplished by an individual who unites the qualities of intellectual honesty and moral courage.

In real life, as opposed to pluralist fantasy, every moral and cultural choice of any consequence rules out a whole series of other choices. In an age of images and ideology, however, the difference between reality and fantasy becomes increasingly elusive.

As might be expected with modern media reporting, every news report of some notable research advance has been commonly seen as moving us "closer" to the holy grail of nitrogen fixation in cereals—but "closer" remains elusive. "Substantial progress" reported in one year has no consequences five years later.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Love is such a slippery thing.

Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away.

identity is as impossible to pin down and hold as an ocean.

Your hands bring a breath of inviolable distances as elusive as ideas. And the ambiguous sway of the moon, of the gentlest, if you rest your eyes on me, touches the spirit. You're the woman who passes by like a leaf. And bequeaths an autumn flame to the trees.

[W]hat was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself, — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but obtainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

The only thing rare is time.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.