of Elude
Source: Webster's dictionaryLife's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. E. B. White
Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637. Charles Krauthammer
We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy. Jerry Coyne
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning. F. Scott Fitzgerald
A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states. Samuel Johnson
Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment. Terry Pratchett