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Quotes About Prologue

O melhor prólogo é o que contém menos coisas, ou o que as diz de um jeito obscuro e truncado.
~ Machado de Assis
The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
~ John Berger
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
~ James Madison
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
~ Margaret Fuller
The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
~ John Berger, Confabulations
In her face excuseCame prologue, and apology too prompt.
~ John Milton
Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
~ Elmore Leonard
The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.
~ Wallace Stevens
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.
~ William Shakespeare
It is widely held among scholars that the Prologue is a preexisting poem that the author of John has incorporated into his work—possibly in a second edition.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Their romance has started in earnest this summer, but the prologue took up the whole previous year. All fall and spring of the previous year they lived with exclusive reference to each other, and were viewed as an unspoken duo by everyone else.
~ Susan Choi
The hard truth about leadership and success is that it can never be taken for granted. It must always be invested in. When companies—or countries for that matter—begin to rest on their laurels and take comfort in their past triumphs or their present performance, the future begins to dim just a bit. The past is not prologue to the future. The future must always be built.
~ Carly Fiorina
PROLOGUE FRIDAY, APRIL 23 OXFORD, ENGLAND ATHENA RAN BLINDLY down the dark country lane, her breath coming in short, harsh gasps. Her school jacket with the St. Polycarp's logo sewn on the pocket was no protection against the sudden drenching spring rain. The knapsack strapped to her body impeded her flight. It did not occur to her to discard it. As the bewildering shock began to wear off, she desperately told herself she was
~ Carol Higgins Clark
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. —Ralph Waldo Emerson PROLOGUE
~ Nora Roberts
Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken
~ Colin Thubron
Every journey begins with one step.
~ James Patterson
Prologue SEXY BEAST One LIKE THE LUXURY CO-OPS and five-star French eateries located in Manhattan's Silk
~ James Patterson
Given that Luke's prologue (1:1-4) closely resembles other Greco-Roman prefaces in which a patron's name is mentioned, Theophilus is most likely a well-to-do Greek who funded Luke's writing project.
~ Craig L. Blomberg
Volume I Chapter I Introductory
~ Walter Scott
One could not see them without feeling it was the first chapter of a novel.
~ Charlotte Mary Yonge
At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could act as a prologue.
~ Saul Bass
I]n politics, reputation is the prologue to fact...
~ Todd Gitlin
Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.
~ Pat Conroy
Section 2: Preview of Things to Come
~ Dallas Willard