Top 99 Prelude Quotes & Sayings

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

Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

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 cave.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

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 from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.

Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.

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

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

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

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

To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted. Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

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.

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

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.

I always have ice cream in the house. I have a bowl of it, and then a bit more. One of the greatest pleasures in my life is going back and getting a second half-bowl. The first bowl is just the prelude.

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 - join the Big Parade.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

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 exceptionally beautiful in time.

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?

I got dared to audition for a play by my best friend Paul. He got cast in 'Hamlet,' and I got cast in 'Prelude to a Kiss,' and that changed everything.

All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.

For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

My first car was an '86 Honda Prelude. It was redone, so it had a new motor, new paint, rims... but it wasn't nearly as much as my Range Rover.

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, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

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

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

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

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.

If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation.

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

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.