Definition of Outset

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Definition of Outset
	Outset A setting out, starting, or beginning. Related Definitions: Beginning, Or, Out, Setting, Starting

Outset Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outset Translations

outset in German is Anfang {m}
outset in Italian is principio

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