Quotes About Elusive

Oh, you're like mercury. You won't be picked up.

You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.

Why is the sky blue?" - A fair enough question, and one I have learned the answer to several times. Yet every time I try to explain it to someone or remember it to myself, it eludes me. Now I like to remember the question alone, as it reminds me that my mind is essentially a sieve, that I am mortal.

Given the fleeting nature of the moment and the least event, the most important thing is to anticipate being able to see it again in order to believe it, to anticipate the absence that already looms, the shadow cast by an elusive present. This is the opposite of what is sometimes called the work of grieving, which tends to allay the forgetting. It is not a question of admitting that the other is no longer there but of assuring oneself of having been there, in person.

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams. And besides, a fresh reality will perhaps make us forget, detest even, the desires on account of which we set out on our journey.

It's like a fuckin' nightmare," Letty said. "One of those where you're trying to find your school locker and you keep running from one to the next, and it's never yours.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

He tried to grasp the thought, but it was like throwing his arms around smoke.

I am the horizon you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso

Whatever our virtues and prejudices as white individuals, this structural racism works as an often elusive but constantly evolving and lethal social system. Structural

absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!

Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

If one wishes to elicit a reaction from the elusive species known as 'reservus quietgirlius, ' one must poke.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you.

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

If mystery, the genre, is about finding the answers, then mystery, that elusive yet essential element of fiction, is about finding the questions.

One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.

We are starved for the unknown God. A few, like Stephen, will consume him in a sacrament. Others, like myself, are driven out into the waste places in search of his presence. That elusive presence that is neither here nor there but arrives, strangely, when we are becoming resigned to absence.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Love was a yeti