Outset Quotes

102 quotes by 90 authors

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… — James Wolcott
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view… — Martin Filler
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,… — E. M. Forster
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is… — C.S. Lewis
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set… — Virginia Woolf
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… — Markus Zusak
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one… — Rollo May
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance.… — Albert Camus
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of… — Charles Dickens
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of Godâ€™s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most… — R. Buckminster Fuller
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable… — Jonathan Franzen
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep… — Rudyard Kipling
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the… — P.G. Wodehouse
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a… — Orison Swett Marden
Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set… — Georgette Heyer
You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you… — Clive Swift
I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change… — Nirmala Srivastava
At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is… — Nirmala Srivastava

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