Fathom Quotes - Page 2

• Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

  Edward Forbes

  Zero, Animal, Ocean Exploration

  Edward Forbes (1843). “Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean Sea: And on Their Distribution, Considered as Bearing on Geology”

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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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• 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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• 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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• It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Girl, Stars, Years

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

  Veronica Roth

  World, Chaos, Isolation

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• Is Virgin you trying to fathom me

  Jack Kerouac

  Trying, Virgins

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.33, BookBaby

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• After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles...
  Nature runs on sunlight.
  Nature uses only the energy it needs.
  Nature fits form to function.
  Nature recycles everything.
  Nature rewards cooperation.
  Nature banks on diversity.
  Nature demands local expertise.
  Nature curbs excesses from within.
  Nature taps the power of limits.

  Janine Benyus

  Running, Nature, Law

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• I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Cities, Order

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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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• A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

  Lucy Larcom

  Friendship, Zest, Impossible

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Heart

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• For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Imagination, Trying, Tools

  Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.180, Penguin

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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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• 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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