For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Failure is nothing more than a prelude to success—and a poetic one at that.” — Michael Parrish DuDell Copy Share Image
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse. — Vance Havner 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
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
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
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
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
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
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to… — Terry Pratchett 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
I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this… — Petra Haden 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
Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the… — Meg Cabot 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
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde 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
There's a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That's why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually… — Ben Edlund 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
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question… — Carl Jung 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
A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
