Outset Quotes

102 quotes by 90 authors

We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's… — Annie Besant
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of… — Dick Cheney
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried… — Dale Carnegie
Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset. — Evan Thomas
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset. — Roger L'Estrange
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again. — Karl Marx
Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State,… — Winston Churchill
From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies. — George Lucas
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… — Tracey Ullman
Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. — Richard Branson
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one… — Wolfgang Langewiesche
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of… — Simone de Beauvoir
Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up… — Jeffery Deaver

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