Quotes About Prelude

Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what?

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

If you'll excuse me, I will retire and have a light supper in my chamber," Mia said. "The brandy went to my head and besides, I have a letter to write." "Of course," Vander said, thinking perhaps they could eat together in his bedchamber. It would be a prelude to eating in bed.

But Springlike preludes suggest a happy world where the young are philosophers and the old gracefully get out of their way.

Until the time is right, disappear we will.

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 have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper.

The regular season, it's kind of like a rehearsal. That's the way I look at it.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

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when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before.

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.

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all other action.

Let us repeat this: inner action must precede all action.

I was always conscious of sounds in nature which my ears could never hear,—that I caught but the prelude to a strain. She always retreats as I advance. Away behind and behind is she and her meaning. Will not this faith and expectation make to itself ears at length?

The title Voices of the Night originally was used by Mr. Longfellow for the poem Footsteps of Angels; then he gave it to the first collected volume of his poetry with special application to the group of eight poems following Prelude. Here it is confined to this group.

This break is a prelude to war, which should, in light of the low level of USSR military technology and internal political and economic difficulties caused by a war, finish off Bolshevism once and for all."47

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert H. Schuller

Sudden things are prepared for.

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Why was it that those who were about to shatter your lives always demanded order from you, when such directives were invariably a prelude to chaos?

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.

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

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.