Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.
I try to preface everything with "this isn't new. " Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements. ' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.
Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.
Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.
Victory needs conflict as its preface.
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?
As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows. " With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.