Quotes About Elusive

A snake heart can slide up and down the length of its body when it needs to. You'll never be able to catch my pulse, my shine.

Jesus said the truth will set us free. What he didn't mention was how nothing is quite as elusive as getting to that truth.

change was such an elusive thing. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the esire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue, because at least the man knew to disapprove of it, which reassured him not all was lost.

change was such an elusive thing. A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the desire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue, because at least the man knew to disapprove of it, which reassured him not all was lost.

Niciodat? realitatea nu mi-a sc?pat mai mult ca acum. Ea imi curge printre degete, e ca o ap? pe care n-o pot opri în c?u?ul palmei.

You can't catch me outside.

Everyone says I should leave it. But of all the cats I have saved, the one I remember is the one I can't catch.

Part of my own endeavor as a writer has been to find ways to value what is elusive and overlooked, to describe nuances and shades of meaning, to celebrate public life and solitary life, and—in John Berger's phrase—to find "another way of telling.

I couldn't see you, no matter how I tried, if you moved around like a jellyfish.

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.

dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and his friends analyzed a topic, something always eluded them.

This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.

Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must be in a very safe place.

If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.

Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

What was any art but a mold 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.

tried to hold the feeling but it was warm as new bath water and just as hard to hold.

Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.