#outset

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. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

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

— Jack Schwartz

#dogged #exodus #jews #metaphor #outset

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

— Evan Thomas

#american people #days #less #must #outset

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. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#ambition #any #burning #grand #had

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. ↗

— George Crabbe

#calls #courage #effort #experience #gains

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

— Arthur Eddington

#because #deals #determinism #impossible #into

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. ↗

— James Wolcott

#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

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. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#east #east side #else #groups #had

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. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#fortune #given #good #good fortune #great

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

— Van Wyck Brooks

#basically #bother #evil #giving #improve