Did they suffer through a few, self-imposed weeks of the quiet life and decide it wasn't for them?
Jules, on the other hand, prefers the quiet life, marries Catherine, and proceeds to tolerate her foibles and repeated infidelities.
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As in the 1930s, there is an exhausted search for the quiet life and an unwillingness to face the hard truths of the world.
There's a strong case against the whole project if you value the quiet, traditional village life in the Chilterns, but it looks a rather attractive option further up the line.
Cox Newspapers' Ken Herman, who has covered Bush for years, says the president prefers a quiet life.
He craved the quiet security of academic life but repeatedly abandoned it for the risks and tumults of public office.
He was born Dorris Brown, but for the sake of a quiet life at school in Arkansas he preferred to call himself Dee.
Michael Anton's quiet life amid the tinned peas, soap and cereals of his mother's grocery store in Baltimore's Polish neighbourhood is tossed into the air by the whirlwind arrival of the pretty, vibrant, red-coated Pauline Barclay.
The shepherds of Germany live a quiet life - but under intense economic pressure.
Chamakh had been quiet but the striker suddenly burst into life with two shots inside the Lyon box that needed to be blocked, before Jaroslav Plasil blazed over from the edge of the 18-yard box.
Floating serenely in the Aegean Sea some 250 miles from the capital, Bozcaada constitutes a momentary pause in the clamour of modern life: a quiet, bucolic place of hidden beaches, cobbled alleys, whitewashed townhouses and old-timers playing backgammon on street corners.
Instead, the computer played this very quiet move that constrained all of Kasparov's pieces, sucking the life out of his position like a boa constrictor.
He described his brother as a quiet person who enjoyed the little things in life.
For years, Venezuelan governments have sought a quiet life through tacit agreements with the guerrillas.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who was quiet in the first half, came to life, as did the other three - Tevez sparked something.
Now that he has been released, Omar says he is planning a quiet life, going to work on the family's farm.
They live a quiet life in California, away from the spotlight.
Ashton, so quiet in the first half, soon sprang into life four minutes into the second half when he finished a superb move crafted by the ingenuity and fleet-footed skills of Foden.
Manchester councillor Pat Karney said the city was "full of underused pockets of space" and the play area was an "example of how we can be creative with our public spaces and bring life to a quiet corner of the city centre".
But at the moment my inclination is that I would like a quiet life.
So despite lots of quiet complaints about the process, it gradually took on a life of its own and embedded complexity into the organization.
After a year or two of quiet, the mammoth online savings account comment thread has come to life again.
In real life, says Kissinger, the moment is "extremely quiet, profoundly quiet".
These days, life on the troubled landscape where he was born is mostly quiet.
By the standards of some of the flashy self-promoters that grace our pages, Malone lives a quiet life.
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Callaghan resigned in 1980 and Labour MPs elected Foot as their leader in preference to the candidate of the right, Denis Healey, some said because they hoped for a quiet life.
In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.
All this activity occurs early in the life span of a galaxy, before it settles down into a quiet middle age.
America's anti-nuclear movement has been as quiet as its nuclear industry, but as one comes to life so will the other.
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