“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”
Dan Rather
“I feel, I tell you from the outset, in very good shape, ... To hide nothing, I was starting to grow anxious to get out. That's a fact. I started to find the time long, especially at lunch time.”
Jacques Chirac
“The firm doesn't start work without a purchase order. Work gets done with a clear plan at the outset of the campaign. It has compelled both the state agencies and ad agency to do business with more forethought and with more attention to incremental costs along the way.”
Curt Topper
“It isn't just a bridge project, it's a sewer project. We have known from the outset that it would be awhile before we could work out an agreement with Central San. Whenever there is more than one agency involved, it adds to the complexity of the project.”
Tim Tucker
“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.”
Thomas Wolfe
“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
“I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.”
Jessye Norman