#elusive

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Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?


John James Audubon


#any #degree #delusive #further #hope

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.


David Foster Wallace


#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most

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


Julie Walters


#elusive #i #i think #instinct #learn

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


John Buchan


#charm #elusive #fishing #hope #occasions

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.


Cliff Richard


#bitter #chasing #down #down the road #elusive

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.


Suzanne Vega


#became #divorced #drive #driver #elusive

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.


Branford Marsalis


#because #elusive #hard #hold #how

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


#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.


Leland Stanford


#creation #declared #delusive #direct #distribution

We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?


Baroness Orczy


#elusive #everywhere #heaven #hell #here