“I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.” IfsGivingMindHumansPersonsMadeRaceHavensGiving UpDeserveDecidedSticksBreadHuman RaceTreatmentSuspectsConventionsPuddlesGenevaGeneva Convention Book:Assassination Vacation Source: Assassination Vacation
“One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.” IfsMenGivingReasonRoomsAirInfluenceExerciseGiving UpDecidedDifficultyMedicineGolfExtraordinaryPatientConvictionMedicalFirmReason WhyExcitementFresh AirConsultingDoorstep Author:Alister MacKenzie
“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.” WayGivingYearsAgeFeltParentBornCryArmsGiving UpDecidedAskingSuicideLegsGravesCommitWorriedMy FutureArms And LegsAsking WhyBorn This WayLoving Parents Author:Nick Vujicic
“I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual relationships is still a valid one, it is no longer one I can espouse--so to speak. There is no revolutionary hope for the heterosexual, and I have therefore decided to love myself and become a lesbian.” GivingStillsI CanSpeakBalanceGiving UpProjectsDecidedRevolutionaryLove MyselfHeterosexualityBalance Of Power Author:Michelene Wandor
“I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.” GivingTryingPlayHappensEyeGamesNamesFitGiving UpProjectsDecidedTownsSouthStuckMoodAwfulMapsPensSouth AfricaFrustratedResortsTropicalIdyllic Author:St. Lucia
“I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.” GivingTeachingNeededGiving UpDecidedGave Up Author:Vera Rubin
“When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.” GivingFirstsFailingGiving UpLateConceptsDecidedRestaurantsTurned Down Author:Emeril Lagasse
“When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.” IfsWayGivingTryingStillsIdeasDonePlayNightMoneyGiving UpMusicianDecidedProfitBellsLots Of MoneyPettyTacosTaco Bell Author:Tom Petty
“As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation.” KnowsGivingChildrenPersonsSaidWould BeMotherFallHoursForeverWillingGiving UpDecidedFalling In LoveMalesHatsHopelessChocolateDedicatedKateNever Fall In Love Author:Lynsay Sands