Quotes of: Prelude Keyword

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Prelude to Foundation

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.

Jonathan Sacks

Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from the...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.

The Flamethrowers

At first the solitude charmed me like a prelude, but so much music wounded me.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

The Fountainhead

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

Ophelia

Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--

The Prelude

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perha...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Nexus

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.

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xceptional execution

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

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.

John Boyd Orr

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

Daniel Tammet

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.

Bette Midler

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.

John Hawkins

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.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

Ending Syria's Occupation Of Lebanon: The U.S. Role

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.

Julie Burchill

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under...

Michael Leunig

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.

Richard Leakey