Famous quotes containing the words high, aspect and/or ratio:
“Ive always got such high expectations for myself. Im aware of them, but I cant relax them.”
—Mary Decker Slaney (b. 1958)
“We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. The Indians have left no traces on its surface, but it is the same to the civilized man and the savage. The aspect of the shore only has changed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
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