“ You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. ”
- Mike Myers- Copy
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“ The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind. ”
- Harriet Rubin- Copy
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“ Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
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“ The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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“ In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. ”
- Beverly Jones- Copy
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“ Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap — even men who hate baths. ”
- Frank Gelett Burgess- Copy
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“ Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. ”
- Lester R. Bittel- Copy
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“ Every landscape appears first of all as a vast chaos … . demonstrate that understanding consists in reducing one type of reality to another; that the true reality is never the most obvious; and that the nature of truth is already indicated by the care it takes to remain elusive… … ”
- Claude Levi Strauss- Copy
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“ Allowing for all the restrictions involved when trying to rank individual artists by using general criteria, we have to say it is a measure of inscrutability and hardness, mostly already perceptible in their craftsmanship, an elusive asceticism, a stubbornness which manifests itself most clearly in a total lack of accommodation to public taste. ”
- Simon Vestdijk- Copy
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“ I've sort of heard that it girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know? ”
- Rachel McAdams- Copy
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“ I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft. ”
- David Ives- Copy
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“ The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere… ”
- Mickey Hart- Copy
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“ Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside… ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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