Quotes About Eluded

You're girls!' he shouted as if the fact had totally eluded him until then.

For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.

Once . . . long ago, he'd thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

Leopardo, striving very hard to pick fights with all his companions and unable to do so-for they were canny and fearful, and knew him in a most hazardous mood-as each eluded him grew more prone to aggression.

Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.