Prelude Quotes

61 Prelude quotes by 57 unique authors

The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term… — Timothy Geithner
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music,… — Gyorgy Ligeti
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. — Shirley MacLaine
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues… — Pablo Casals
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? — Alphonse de Lamartine
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't -… — Bette Midler
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… — Jonathan Sacks
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he… — Meg Cabot
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is… — Reinhold Niebuhr
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? — Christopher Buckley
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne
As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . .… — Markus Zusak
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the… — Ayn Rand
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived… — Nicholas Sparks
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage. — Joyce Carol Oates
As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages.… — Terry Pratchett
How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another. — Jane Yolen
It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello. — Maureen Johnson
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine
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… — Lauren Kate
We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort… — John Connolly
The rain is a necessary prelude to beautiful weather. So even if your heart is in downpour right now it only means it will become… — Bisco Hatori

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