Prelude famous quotes

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

#Awful #Disaster #Prelude

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich

#Childhood #Biographies #Prelude

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

#Ideas #Action #Prelude

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.
-- J. Christopher Herold

#Program #Prelude #Dictatorship

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

#Storm #Prelude #Passing

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous
-- Joel C. Rosenberg

#Evil #Genocide #Prelude

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 to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...
-- Lauren Kate

#Blessing #Prelude #Said

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 #Prelude #Realising

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

#Islamic #World #Prelude

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

#Celebration #Sometimes #Prelude