This life is only a prelude to eternity.
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.
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.
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude. '
You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
To militant Islamists, the expulsion of the Soviets was just the prelude to purging the entire Islamic world of infidels.
Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.
I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!
For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.
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.
It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
A great piece of music is beautiful, regardless of how it is performed.
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous
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.
How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.
