Fathom Quotes - Page 4

• I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

  Jordan Peele

  Men, Biting, Figuring It

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  God, Men, Lord

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.318

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• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Government, Perfect

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Writing, Imagination

  Martin Luther (2017). “Martin Luther's Table Talk”, p.80, Gideon House Books

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• Every mile marker can be met with some measure of trepidation, in a race or in life. Am I on target? Do I have what it takes to finish strong? Am I taking care to stay nourished so I can endure? Is my training proving to be sufficient? Am I prepared for the hills? It is impossible to fathom the full distance, so we make our way to the next mile marker, and the next, checking in with ourselves as we go.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Strong, Distance, Race

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• A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Men, Trying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3588, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

  Suki Kim

  Wall, Sometimes, Prison

  Suki Kim (2014). “Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite”, p.44, Crown

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• It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Our World, Air

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom."

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Silence, Departure, Might

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• The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as Absolute, as Infinite, as Personal, while it may never in this life be able to fathom the full meaning of these sublime ideas.

  George C. Lorimer

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 267), 1895.

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• The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.

  George Berkeley

  Real, Thinking, Views

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• It's hard to speculate as a human about the afterlife because you're not in it. And it's probably as wild and wacky as you could imagine. The idea that people have figured it out, I'm not sure if I can fathom that.

  Gus Van Sant

  Ideas, Afterlife, People

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• Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

  Nicolas Caussin

  Ambition, Fire, Wind

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• Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Anchors, Might, Toss

  Song: Son of a Son of a Sailor, Album: Son of a Son of a Sailor, 1978

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• I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... But I definitely went through a time where I was just terrified and exhausted and I didn't really understand. Hollywood... It just got to be too much for me.

  Winona Ryder

  People, Hollywood, Clubs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed to a Facebook page. I had a brief, intense romance with Facebook. It's weirdly addictive, but anything that time-sucking is a danger for a writer who writes as slowly as I do. Now I post only occasionally and nothing very confessional. I think I'm carbon dating myself as I speak.

  Debra Dean

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

  Noel Gallagher

  Morning, Drinking, People

  "The Noel Gallagher life management system" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.

  W. G. Sebald

  Mean, Reality, Understanding

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Doctrine, Way, Dogma

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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• It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Real, Thinking, Doe

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

  Dodie Smith

  Real, Feelings, Mind

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.242, St. Martin's Press

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• For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.

  Ann Aguirre

  Crazy, Heart, Soul

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.97, Penguin

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• "That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom & Sons, and she follows my gaze to Puck. "Neither of you are a housewife." I don't look away from Puck. "I think you assume too much, Dory Maud." "You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see."

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Son, Thinking

  "The Scorpio Races". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2011.

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• I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love You, Insanity, Secret

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.103, Modern Library

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• A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Views, Ignorant

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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