Forerunners Quotes

• Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Events, Certain

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• You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Self, Foundation, Giants

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  Ma Huateng

  Needs, Extraordinary

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• Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Order, Perfect, Horror

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• Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Book, Burning, Graves

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.373, Penguin

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• I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want - a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.

  Henry Martyn

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Real, Knowledge, Progress

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 366), 1895.

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• The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

  Pope John XXIII

  Light, Church, Splendid

  "Make the Catholic church pay for its shameful silence" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotism, Liberty, Civil Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Jealousy

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• Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

  Gautama Buddha

  True Friend, Dawn, Noble

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• Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred.

  Margaret of Valois

  Hatred, Mistrust

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• Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (1989). “A Room of One's Own”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

  George W. Crane

  Failure, Thinking, Ideas

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• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Perfect, Joy

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Accomplishment, Desire, Ability

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• For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

  Jim Capaldi

  Writing, Titles, Band

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• As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.

  Frederick The Great

  Movement, Body, Void

  Letter 221 to Voltaire on November 25, 1777. "Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great", translated by Richard Aldington, 1927.

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• Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Sms, Stories, Shade

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Luxury, Aristocracy, Ruins

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.387

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• Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Hate, Unexpected

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.

  Ronald Wright

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Wright (2006). “An Illustrated Short History of Progress”

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• The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Democracy, Culture, World

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die: but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Believe, Men, Years

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