#began

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

#around #attack #began #campaigns #cattle

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#cheek #come #drunk #ever #face

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #began #better #catch #chance

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently. ↗

— Ruggero Leoncavallo

#art #began #deep #i #impression

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#hill #i #jogging #live #sprinting

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#became #began #beginning #down #eventually

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change. ↗

— Harold Nicholas

#black #change #entertained #experienced #horrible

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. ↗

— Douglass North

#brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. ↗

— Kim Novak

#began #confidence #i #instinctive #instincts