They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women. Livy
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. Dan Rather
I have always imposed my wishes on the cameraman. Moreover, I have always picked them at the outset of their careers and, to a certain extent, have formed them myself. Michelangelo Antonioni
The judicial process, as was said at the outset of these lectures, is a process of search and comparison, and little else. Benjamin N. Cardozo
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. Diane Johnson
Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. Jack Welch