They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.
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 metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.