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
Colorful Prelude quotations
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
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.
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.
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.
There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion.
Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits suicide
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
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.
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
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.
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.
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.
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
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 love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
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.
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
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.
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner.
.. I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.
Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.
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.
God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life.
And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation--preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul--forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?
An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!
That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, And play the prelude of our fate. We hear The voice prophetic, and are not alone.
It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.
As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.