Fathom Quotes
160 quotes by 133 authors
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I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!
— William Shakespeare
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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…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
— John Green
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For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem…
— Bill Bryson
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Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of…
— Michael Chabon
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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…
— Chuck Klosterman
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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…
— Veronica Roth
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Is Virgin you trying to fathom me
— Jack Kerouac
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We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must…
— Charles Darwin
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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…
— Henry Miller
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God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when…
— Jerry Bridges
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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…
— Arundhati Roy
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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…
— Lucy Larcom
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We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.
— Nelly Mazloum
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Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way…
— David Wilcock
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the…
— Seth Shostak
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I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing…
— Chris Pine
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Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do.…
— Lisa Leslie
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.…
— Bible
Who Wrote These Fathom Quotes
133 authors contributed a total of 160 Fathom Quotes, led by these top contributors: