This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship. — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
“Failure is nothing more than a prelude to success—and a poetic one at that.” — Michael Parrish DuDell Copy Share Image
I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Nature religions, for example, speak of summer, fall, winter, and spring. They see the downward path as the necessary prelude to any… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did.… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a… — David Price Copy Share Image
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image