Eluding Quotes

#1. "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Jonathan Swift

#2. It's karma. After almost a decade of eluding it, it's finally caught up to me, and I deserve every painful moment of it.

Jessica Wood

#3. The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

Emily James Smith Putnam

#4. Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

Andy Andrews

#5. We could have simply passed like ships in the night, with serendipity eluding us.

Matt Abrams

#6. There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.

John A. Gotti

#8. Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

Witold Gombrowicz

#9. She was my assignment."
"From The Eye?"
"No, from the Boy Scouts. That Witch Dating badge just kept eluding me."
"Well, you must have at least three Total Douchebag badges by now, so that has to count for something.

Rachel Hawkins

#10. The battle between her body and mind was raging, and she was adrift in a sea of passion and desire without a life preserver. As she fought the waves of her own passion, the ability to express her need in words was eluding

Avery Gale

#11. I shook Alan's hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you're looking for what to say and it's on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you.

Pamela Alvarado

#12. The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

Jack Hanna

#13. For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

#14. So why were you with her?"
"She was my assignment."
"From The Eye?"
"No, from the Boy Scouts. That Witch Dating badge just kept eluding me."

Hawkins, Rachel (2011-03-01). Demonglass (Hex Hall Book 2) (p. 255). Disney. Kindle Edition.

Rachel Hawkins

#15. Honestly...this is why I write.
I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.
I write for my sanity.

Debora Dennis

#16. Battling through poverty was not my forte, and I didn't have the inkling of eluding them.

Fernando Lachica

#17. [President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

George Will

#18. The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,
simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

Herman Melville

#19. Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

John Herschel

#20. I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Kate Thompson

#21. The face which had long since forgotten how to be young and yet absolutely impenetrable, absolutely serene: no mourning, not even grief

William Faulkner

#22. The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#23. The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#24. The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

Ranbir Kapoor

#25. An accident of birth had signed her death warrant.
He could mark her name off his to-do list.

Linda Howard

#26. Pray God our aim is true and each arrow finds it's mark.

Stephen R. Lawhead