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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. -- Piers Anthony
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. -- Michael Caine
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? -- Fanny Crosby
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence. -- Lance Secretan
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen. -- Ben Stein
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. -- John Locke
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
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
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. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do. -- Lisa Leslie
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
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do. -- John Cusack
Music fathoms the sky. -- Charles Baudelaire
Full fathom five thy father lies -- William Shakespeare
Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms. -- Edward Forbes
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. -- John Green
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read. -- Daniel Radcliffe
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. -- Rudyard Kipling
My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom. -- Cam Newton
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much. -- Bob Brown
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension. -- Carl Sandburg
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it. -- Bryan Batt
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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
Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out. -- Morgan Wootten
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
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. -- Richard Baker
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. -- Richard Baker
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country. -- Lorrie Fair
I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth. -- Johnny Weir
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
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
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 - on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom. -- David Wilcock
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens... -- Johannes Kepler
The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say. -- Paul Hawken
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 last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence. -- Seth Shostak
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible. -- Ken Robinson
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Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Is Virgin you trying to fathom me -- Jack Kerouac
Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom. -- Meher Baba
We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths. -- Pat Riley
My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations. -- John Green
Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness... -- James E. Talmage
Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep. -- Jodi Picoult
The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent. -- Sun Tzu
We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable. -- Nelly Mazloum
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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
Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
You cannot fathom your mind.... The more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be. -- George Augustus Henry Sala
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls. -- Suki Kim
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You`re demonstrating a courage that most people can`t even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself -- Iyanla Vanzant
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
The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity. -- Max Lucado
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
The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really. -- Ron Suskind
When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom. -- Subroto Bagchi
I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous. I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can't fathom. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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
I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are. -- Laird Barron
The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. -- Owen Feltham
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
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
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
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
But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean. -- Sherri Gaillard
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen. -- Jacqueline Carey
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 we don't understand. -- Jerry Bridges
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!" -- Derek R. Audette
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom. -- Nicole Krauss
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. -- Paracelsus
One can become something other than human. One can become limitless, enlightened, aware, awakened, knowledgeable and powerful in ways that human beings who traverse this earth cannot yet fathom. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My parents' biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn't fathom me acting for the rest of my life. -- Mila Kunis
The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world. -- Selma LagerlÃ¶f
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
I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one. -- Claude Monet
If I have the gift of the prophecy, and can fathom all mystery's and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. -- Anonymous
The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them. -- Angela B. Chrysler
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them. -- Stephanie Mills
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this. -- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded. -- Eric Maisel
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
Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things. -- Criss Jami
The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains. -- Voltaire

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