Eluded Quotes

#1. Friendship, companionship: it so often defied logic, so often eluded the deserving, so often settled itself on the odd, the bad, the peculiar, the damaged.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

E.B. White

#3. There were still too many people who were afraid of a technology that eluded them, still more who would never have access and resented and feared it in equal measures. Mobilize those groups just once, find a demagogue-and there always were demagogues-and the nets would find themselves destroyed.

Melissa Scott

#4. It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

Mary McAleese

#5. My first western was 'Death Hunt' with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses.

William Sanderson

#6. I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Giuseppe Verdi

#7. Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Perle

#8. She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.

T.D. Whittle

#9. If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

George Santayana

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

Ally Carter

#11. The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Christina Ricci

#12. Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy
that eluded him at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Incredible, searing, glorious heat consumed her. Coherent thought eluded her. She could not think. She could not speak. With a helpless gasp of pleasure, she surrendered. Her arms twined around his neck, clutching him to her.

C.L. Wilson

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

Andrei Makine

#15. I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.

Idina Menzel

#16. Waited for sleep, that gentle mockery of death, to take me. I longed for its effacing grace. But its peace eluded me, and I rose from the bed, my head pounding from the salty torrent of my tears and the ache deep in my stomach.

Rick Yancey

#17. if he had used all his power to guard Mordor, so that none could enter, and bent all his guile to the hunting of the Ring, then indeed hope would have faded: neither Ring nor bearer could long have eluded him. But

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too ...

Lydia Davis

#19. The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#20. Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

Danielle Steel

#21. Even to someone as notorious as Madonna, I think Jesus would say, 'I'll help you experience the fulfillment that has eluded you despite your struggle to find it. I'll help heal whatever's driving you to affirm your self-worth in self-defeating ways. But I can only help you if you let me.

Lee Strobel

#22. The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#23. I sought my God and my God I couldn't find;
I sought my soul and my soul eluded me;
I sought to serve my brother in his need, and I found all three;
My God, my soul, and thee.

William Blake

#24. I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.

Alice Hoffman

#25. No one could tell me where my soul might be;
I searched for God but he eluded me;
I sought my brother out and found all three.

Ernest Howard Crosby

#26. She drove slowly into town as the gold and rose fingers of the dawn reached toward fading stars that eluded them.

Dean Koontz

#27. I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

Liza Minnelli

#28. The lines gradually become their own demiurges and, like some witless yet miraculous participant, I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know.

Muriel Barbery

#29. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.

J.C. Reed

#30. Dean watched her quietly as a storm of confusion whirled through his mind. What he could say to comfort her right now eluded him as words lingered beyond the grasp of his thoughts. He resigned himself to the fact there was no possible solace he could provide as she dressed briskly.

Jill Thrussell

#31. We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

Jerry A. Coyne

#32. Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept - the world aged, moved forward, yet I ... didn't.

Laura Kreitzer

#33. Although Christianity had almost cleanly swept through Igbo land, crumbs and pieces of the African traditional religion had eluded the broom.

Chigozie Obioma

#34. There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#35. Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end up returning to the world in search of the human companionship that always eluded him, even in childhood, even in his own family

Steven Naifeh

#36. I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

Emily Carr

#37. Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

Terry Tempest Williams

#38. This guy eluded the French police ... in loafers?
-Chief Anderson

Dan Brown

#39. Henley - " She reached for him, but he eluded her grasp. "I don't want you to go."
"No, you want to be the one who leaves. That's how it works, right? You go whenever you're ready. And to hell with what I'm ready for.

Sarah Cross

#40. Sleep always eluded the pursuer.

Evelyn Anthony

#41. I have enough memories to keep me company and no great need for friends. I simply feel, as I have often felt, that life has eluded me.

Lorna Bradbury

#42. Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

Bill Dixon

#43. I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

Baba Amte

#44. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning

F Scott Fitzgerald

#45. 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.

Charles Krauthammer

#46. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Lisa Kleypas

#47. His face eluded me. It didn't matter anyway. All that was important was what he had done to my body.

Siva D.

#48. Take the time to slow down, relax, meditate, and contemplate the wonders within. You will discover an inner calm and balance that previously eluded you.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#49. 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.

Karen Armstrong

#50. I do not NEED a man. That was an impossible thought when I married John thirty years ago. It was unimaginable even seven years ago. I finally understand why lasting love has eluded me: the relationship I've been searching for all along was with myself.

Shary Hauer

#51. Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.

Alison Bechdel