Fathoming Quotes

#1. Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was ... what he could do.

Piers Anthony

#2. Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become boundless [ ... ] In fathoming this abyss no bottom has been found. We are now to examine what discoveries Sir Isaac Newton has made in it.

Voltaire

#3. To prevent the enemy from fathoming one's intentions is of the first importance.

Sun Tzu

#4. press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment

Ben Wilson

#5. In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.

Mark Helprin

#6. But I still don't have knowledge, interpreting the surprises that others don't know about, that will drive a new narrative. You have to work and think and stress and fret to surmise the surprises by first fathoming the pulse.

George Gilder

#7. Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.

Carl Jung

#8. It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

Mark Twain

#9. Time at length becomes justice.

Cynthia Ozick

#10. I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

Judith Guest

#11. You are a force rarely born to a world, something we Elves call leinah thaniel, the Song that sings all Songs, the Mirror that shows all Mirrors, the Change that changes everything.

C.L. Wilson

#12. We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

Keith Miller

#13. What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

James Cook

#14. The idea of using extraordinary force does not mean more of the same effort. Extraordinary action results from out-of-the-box thinking.

Gerald A. Michaelson

#15. No matter how ridiculous your dream may sound to others, you owe yourself the responsibility of stepping out to do it.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#16. When you're in the city, trapped among the cubic structures, it's easy to forget that you're connected to the earth, because you're so separated from it by layers and layers of protection - the soles of your shoes, sandals, or slippers, sheets of asphalt, concrete, linoleum tiling.

Vicente Garcia Groyon