By quitting now, the protesters can plausibly claim, by their lights, a specious moral victory.
By quitting, they removed these repeated episodes of anxiety and felt less anxious as a result, they added.
And oh, yes, there's Mario Vazquez, a 27-year-old Bronx-bred crooner who grabbed the spotlight by quitting American Idol in March.
Then he astonished everyone by quitting to publish his own cookbooks, thereby attaining a measure of immortality for his transitory art.
By quitting, Mr Davis compromised that image of like-minded harmony.
Suzy, born to privilege and clearly destined to be a highflier, lost altitude by quitting her boarding school at 16 and going to Paris, where she worked for a while as a secretary.
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However, at what seemed to be the tipping point of his career at the big bank, he surprised everyone by quitting his job to take up a position in a small Southeast Asian bank.
Some Liberal Democrats say that if the fees are not abolished, their party will have no choice but to save face by quitting Mr Dewar's coalition and forcing Labour to govern as a minority, as it already does in Wales.
And by not quitting herself, daring him to fire her, she gave Mr Olmert back the initiative.
Polunin, who at 19 became the Royal Ballet's youngest male principal, shocked the dance world in January 2012 by unexpectedly quitting a week before he was due to appear as the lead in a production of The Dream.
While that dispute has now been resolved, the FIA says the teams could have prevented teams quitting F1 by accepting their proposals.
Similar to the previous study, Thun and colleagues showed that quitting smoking by age 40 almost completely erases the increased risk of smoking-related death.
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The by-election was triggered by popular Labour MP Ian Gibson quitting after he was barred from standing again for the party over his expenses - sparking anger among some constituents.
Ads in each campaign ended by posting a hotline number for help quitting smoking.
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Lewer's reign has been hampered by financial problems with several star players quitting the club.
This year will see the usual round of local elections in May, followed by elections in England and Wales for the new police commissioners and big city mayors in November (not to mention any Commons by-elections which result from MPs quitting to become mayors or police bosses).
Purdham's brother Garry was one of 12 people killed by Derrick Bird last year and he considered quitting the sport then to return to the family farm.
By 2006, he had been thinking of quitting ballet "after a year or two", he told Russia 24, but the artistic director of the time, Yuri Grigorovich, persuaded him after The Golden Age that ballet was his calling.
OK, I'm kidding, but not by much: He announces that Stark Industries is quitting the arms trade.
The Briton tried to restart but then slumped down by the side of the road, sobbing, quitting the race with 6km left.
Quitting after a setback squanders the opportunity created by adversity and the self-made wealthy know that persevering in the face of adversity is the key to success!
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Elsewhere, Drew Henry is considering quitting snooker after the Scotsman was beaten 5-1 by Ian McCulloch.
Investors fear any refusal by Athens to impose deep spending cuts agreed under a bailout deal could result in the country quitting the bloc of 17 countries that use the euro.
In a survey by Business Insider, 41 percent of respondents said that disliking a boss was a driving force in quitting their jobs.
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Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be replaced by Microsoft exec Stephen Elop on Sept. 21, and mobile business unit head Anssi Vanjoki is also quitting.
And Davies, who captained Wales in their 2-0 defeat by Germany in April 2009, even admitted to BBC Sport almost exactly 12 months ago that he considered quitting Wales.
Rees was given a community punishment by a Cardiff Crown Court judge after admitting wounding but the 27-year-old insists he never once considered quitting boxing.
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