Fathom Quotes - Page 2

• The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

  William Dampier

  Morning, August, Land

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.114, tredition

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• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Injury, Head Injuries, Whole Family

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• In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

  William Dampier

  Water, Half, Ships

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.27, tredition

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• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

  Edward Forbes

  Depth, Looks, Shells

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• The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Depth, Havens

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anthony Mario Ludovici (2004). “Ecce Homo”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Mind, Clear, Draws

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• If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.

  Benjamin Carson

  Nice, Moving, Men

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• As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Sometimes, Knows

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reverence, Unfathomable, Reserves

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• She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surface, Shows, Millions

  "The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871".

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• To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

  Jessica Hische

  Creativity, Artist, Player

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• There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

  Alberto Salazar

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature would seem quite inconceivable. This power of producing its likeness that resides in animals and plants, this form of unity, always subsisting and appearing eternal, this procreative virtue which is perpetually expressed without ever being destroyed, is for us a mystery which, it seems, we will never be able to fathom.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Spiritual, Mind

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• Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

  James Earl Jones

  Money, Children, Thinking

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• Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Ideas

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, Baby, Fighting

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• My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Hipster, My Thoughts, Constellations

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• The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

  Sloane Crosley

  Rocks, Cottages, Cheese

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• Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

  James E. Talmage

  Men, Depth, Divine

  James E. Talmage “Jesus the Christ”, Lulu.com

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• If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond?

  Joseph J. Romm

  Sea, Climate, Levels

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Auditions, Actors, Young

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• I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, Math, Two

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