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“By repeatedly reminding yourself of the 'elusiveness' of money, you may begin to distinguish it from the people or the group that use it.”

Money Elusiveness

Book:The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Haydon was more than his model, he was his inspiration, the torch-bearer of a certain kind of English calling which - for the very reason that it was vague and understated and elusive - had made sense of Guillam's life till now.”

Inspiration Behaviour Vague Englishmen English Understatement Vagueness Elusiveness Englishness

Book:Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“Never the time and the place and the loved one altogether”

Impossible Things Elusiveness Imperfe

Book:THE POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING Blacks Readers Service J Black Hardcover 1932 [Hardcover] Robert Browning

Source: THE POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING Blacks Readers Service J Black Hardcover 1932 [Hardcover] Robert Browning

“We spend so much time chasing butterflies that we rarely appreciate the beauty of the flowers.”

Stability Elusiveness Elusive Goals Short Lived Pusuits

Author:Monika Ajay Kaul

“The neons become matter. The metallics lose their sheen. The humility runs through veins like prosperity runs through dreams. Why does the sun cast her beams so harshly that it seems as though the parties are serene?”

Inspirational Quotes Poetry Quotes Philosophy Quotes Verse Elusiveness Rhyming Poetry Esoteric Quotes

Book:Moonlight

Source: Moonlight

“Characterisation is a certain kind of possession, or claim to possession, of that which cannot be possessed. It is the construction of a little abstract effigy, a model as English physicists call it, of a reality which will not lend itself to these tricks, these deceptive pretences, except in the most superficial way. Reality will only play this game with us in so far as we cut ourselves off from it, and consequently are guilty of self-desertion.”

Reality Elusiveness

Book:Being and Having

Source: Being and Having

“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.”

“What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.”

Can Do Rocks Band Nails Indie Rock Elusiveness

Author:Andrew Bird

“In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, "Whew, at last I'm in a place where I don't have to worry," or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner.”

Home Lasts Desire Worry Mystery Amount Partners Tension Unpredictable Losing Yourself Small Amounts Elusiveness

Author:Esther Perel

“An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.”

Stills Real Dream Today Faces Values Wall Shadow Secure Eras Posts Innocence Distinction Tragic Imaginary Plato Caves Fragility Flicker Plato S Elusiveness Plato's Cave

Author:William J. Mitchell

“Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.”

Vision Mystery Creation Horror Perfection Pressure Uncertainty Fixed Providence Flawed Dissolution Intricacy Elusiveness

Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.”

“Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.”

Hard Felt Leadership Impossible Needed Concepts Absence Paradox Evident Describing Elusive Paradoxical Prescribing Lack Of Leadership Elusiveness

Author:Patrick Dodson

“It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.”

Trying Humans Wall Unbelievable Mixtures Pins Blair Jelly Piglet Houdini Elusiveness

Author:Boris Johnson

“I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.”

Thinking Done Jobs Justice Honest Genius Walking Goodness Our Time Complexity Paradox Biographies Cloaks Exemplary Elusiveness

Author:Otto Penzler