#elusive

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#economic #elusive #environment #improve #iraq

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

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

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#books #cast #current #elusive #focused

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. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#elusive #i #know #mean #never

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

#bedside #before #best #during #elusive

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff. ↗

— Scott Adams

#because #could #creativity #day #doing

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

— David Foster Wallace

#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most

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

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

— Hun Sen

#decades #elusive #finally #in the past #many