Elusive Quotes

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

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.

There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

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.

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.