Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. Gabriel García Márquez
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. Kenneth Grahame
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated. Michael Parenti
In a whisper he began begging for-and, as the sun set, received-the concession people always beg for: a little more time. Zadie Smith
...but to Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross. Henry Adams
Every beginning is hard, said the thief, when he began by stealing an anvil. German Proverb