False Alarm Rate

Famous quotes containing the words false, alarm and/or rate:

    “We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
    —Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)