Top 367 Elusive Quotes & Sayings

Confidence can be elusive because you don't know you've lost it. It's not something you can put your finger on.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience.

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

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

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

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive

Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

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

Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

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.

I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.

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

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

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

It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.

Mexican boxing is very aggressive; you go forward with great heart. The American style is always that you run around, you try to be elusive. The Mexican style is much better. I never tried to be elusive.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

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

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

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

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

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

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

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.

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

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

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.

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

There's an elusive element to comedy, but nobody gets it for free. That's why comedians seldom criticise each other.

Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Everything in life is elusive.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

No doubt, the fight against ISIS is deadly serious, as was the raid that took down their elusive leader.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing.

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.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.

You're not directing an actor toward a thing they can't achieve. Because direction is elusive. When directors hold respect for the various craftsmen and -women who are telling the story, it's the greatest result. I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

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