Outset Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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