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film and television actress from the United States 1908–1989Related quotes
[Claudi Arizzi, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-watchers-ponder-whats-deal, Royal watchers ponder 'what's the deal?', 21 November 1997, 20 September 2015, Phnom Penh Post]
“I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.”
#412
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”
Number 2 (as translated by Cliff Crego)
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough
to be to you just object and thing,
dark and smart.
I want my free will and want it accompanying
the path which leads to action;
and want during times that beg questions,
where something is up,
to be among those in the know,
or else be alone.
(as translated by Annemarie S. Kidder)
Das Stunden-Buch (The Book of Hours) (1905)
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Context: I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every hour holy.
I am too small in the world, and yet not tiny enough
just to stand before you like a thing,
dark and shrewd.
I want my will, and I want to be with my will
as it moves towards deed;
and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,
when something is approaching,
I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone.
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
Letter to Herbert Spencer (22 March 1886); this is often quoted with a variant spelling as: I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
1880s
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
“George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.”
On the need for change
No byline (2004-10-14), "Voices for Charge". Rolling Stone. (959):64-70.
