False Alarm Rate

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

    “Over the stark plain
    The stilted mill-chimneys once again spread
    Their sackcloth and ashes a flowing mane
    Of repentance for the false day that’s fled.”
    —William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969)

    “Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)