Elusive Quotes - Page 12

• The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

  Alan Watts

  Hands, Water, Trying

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• Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.

  Daniel Gillies

  Want

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• People believe that radical Islamic terrorism has not been defeated. They don't much like ObamaCare, they think it's been a bad deal for many Americans. They certainly think everyday affordability is elusive to them.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Islamic, Believe, Thinking

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2016.

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• I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  England, Ancestry, Muse

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Focus, Greek, Strive

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But the benefits have been elusive at best - partly because the ostensible reasons for going war were unconnected with reality - no weapons of mass destruction, no connections with 9/11.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Reality, Reason

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Michael Pollan

  Ordinary, Forget, Moments

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.180, Random House

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• Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, “Can you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?” “Can do,” Janco said with a smile. “Lieutenant Darren, let me be the first to congratulate you on capturing the elusive and legendary Kelav. He’s been wanted in Ixia for years on multiple counts of espionage.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Years, Relief, Firsts

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• I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dream, Art

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• Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Dawn, Fleeting, Sacred

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• Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Fashion, School, Enemy

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• Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

  John Dewey

  Names, Matter, Void

  John Dewey (2015). “How We Think: Top American Authors”, p.136, 谷月社

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• Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Writing, Hunting, Perfect

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