quotes about Prelude
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How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
-- Christopher Buckley -
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 -
Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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 HeroldSource : J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.
-- Jane Yolen -
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous
-- Joel C. Rosenberg -
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 -
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 -
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To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.
-- Gilles KepelSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.
-- Matthew Specktor