Outset Quotes

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Truth, Give

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Titus Livius

End, Betray, However

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Good, Great

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather

Long, Start, Journey

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.
James Wolcott

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
Tracey Ullman

Life, Ambition, Plan

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
Tom Peters

Human, Saying, Cannot

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.
Conrad Black

State, President, Israel

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Titus Livius

Women, Men, End

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
Tom Wolfe

Away, Else, Three

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Arthur Eddington

Perfect, Impossible, Physics

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

War, Help, Effort

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.
Joel Coen

Important, Sometimes, Story

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
Jack Schwartz

Success, Resentment, Jews

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.
Roberto Unger

Away, Treasure, Explain

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.
Richard Neal

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
Vito Fossella

Women, Great, Men

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
John Perry Barlow

Long, Real, Together

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.
Donald Evans

Leadership, War, America

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
Howard Staunton

Great, Confused, Study

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
Rene Cassin

Life, After, Beginning

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Company, Danger, Affair

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
Douglas Haig

Struggle, Long, Moral

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
Carl Bernstein

Life, Struggle, Black

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.
Jessye Norman

Grateful, Horizons, Narrowed

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
Van Wyck Brooks

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
George Crabbe

Life, Courage, Experience

I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.
John Garamendi

Health, Care, Nation

Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.
Evan Thomas

Victory, American, Public

Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
Evan Thomas

American, Days, Less

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