Top 22 Prelude Quotes - Quoted Daily

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Steven Biko

Made, Prelude, Black Consciousness

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Childhood, Biographies, Prelude

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Beautiful, Pieces, Prelude

Letter to Isaac Glikman, (August 28, 1955) in "Composers on Music" edited by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, (p. 364), 1997.

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

Vance Havner

Comfort, Easy, Prelude

Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

Seneca the Younger

Life, Eternity, Prelude

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Christopher Buckley

Awful, Disaster, Prelude

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Jonathan Sacks

Oppression, Regimes, Prelude

Anger is a prelude to courage.

Eric Hoffer

Positive, Prelude

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

Joel C. Rosenberg

Evil, Genocide, Prelude

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

J. Christopher Herold

Program, Prelude, Dictatorship

J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

Heinrich Heine

Book, Ends, Prelude

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

Boyd K. Packer

Essentials, Revelations, Prelude

Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

Joyce Carol Oates

Hurt, Rage, Prelude

To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.

Gilles Kepel

Islamic, World, Prelude

Source: www.spiegel.de

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.

Zig Ziglar

Victim, Prelude, Knows

Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.

Sylvia Plath

Dancing, Normal, Prelude

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

Samuel Richardson

Wicked, Deeds, Prelude

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.20

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

Matthew Specktor

Celebration, Sometimes, Prelude

Source: therumpus.net

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer, Prelude, Inaction

Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

Lauren Kate

Blessing, Prelude, Said

Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.1116, Delacorte Press