#elude

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

#eludes #ever #fickle #grasp #his

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. ↗

— Ovid

#like #long #many #offered #them

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#across #always #characters #come #comedy

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. ↗

— Mary Richards

#foot #front #knowledge #other #path

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#come #deluded #i #inhumane #mentality

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#delude #important #may #survival #tool

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#cannot #carried #could #days #elude

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#genuinely #had #leadership #military #period

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#isaac-asimov #prelude-to-foundation #science #science-fiction #scientists