Prelude Quotes

• 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

  Scare, Groups, Want

  Bette Midler (1980). “A View from a Broad”, Simon & Schuster

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• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Struggle, Healthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• This life is only a prelude to eternity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Eternity, Life Is

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• Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

  Mary McCarthy

  Political, Understanding, Forgiving

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• 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

  Made, Black Consciousness, Realising

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• 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.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Life, Giving, Worry

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• 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

  War, Mad, Hatred

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• 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

  Simple, Years, Play

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• 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

  Oppression, Regimes, Tyranny

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• 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.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Italian, Body, Painting

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

  Daniel Tammet

  Raindrops, Music Love, I Love Music

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• 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

  Fun, Mistake, Hair

  "A suitable case for treatment". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• 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 or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

  Timothy Geithner

  Hurt, Recovery, Commitment

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Ideas, Action, Significance

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Beautiful, Pieces, Music Is

  Letter to Isaac Glikman, (August 28, 1955) in "Composers on Music" edited by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, (p. 364), 1997.

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

  Boyd K. Packer

  Essentials, Revelations, Reverence

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Beautiful, Pieces, Matter

  "Composers on Music". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 364, 1997.

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• Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Dawn, Alive

  "The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).

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• Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Intelligence

  Enemies of Promise ch. 13 (1938)

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• Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

  Twyla Tharp

  Giving, Wish, Neurosis

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Inaction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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

  Theophane Venard

  Christian, Jubilee, Festivals

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• A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• The still, sad music of humanity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Music, Nature, Humanity

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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