Settle Quotations | Page 5

I'm never one that necessarily plays their best right off the bat. It took a little while to settle into the conditions and how Rika plays, but I do feel I started to improve some things in the second set.

I'm very happy with the quality of this recruiting class. We have to replace 25 seniors from last year's team so it will be important to fill gaps. We signed quality players at every position. We didn't just have to settle for what was available.

In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could. ... In Boston, there's never any area on the course ... where you can settle in and just get on a pace and zone out, whereas here you can do that. You can zone out for huge periods.

I'm certainly not going to dwell on this year. It was a horrible year in every aspect of the word horrible. There were some good plays, some good situations and some guys stepped up for us, but as a whole, when you are used to being a certain way, your mentality is used to being a certain way, you do not settle. I'm not going to settle and hopefully guys won't settle either.

I'm the best and I don't settle for nothing less. It's just like if you're the best at your job, you want to be compensated for being the best at your position.

I made some adjustments this year to try to settle in and not do too much at the plate. I'll keep pressing on and keep playing. Whatever decision they make is their decision. All I can do is keep playing well.

I'm just kind of settling back into what I did before, ... Having not started a game in what, four months, you don't forget how to do it, but there are little things that go with the day and the game that you try to settle yourself back into and get comfortable with.

I knew we would eventually settle down because we were a bit tight in the beginning, but Stephen got some good shots and took them.

I had to settle down and do my job. Once I settled down, I felt good about it.

I had to settle down and stay poised and stay mentally ready. I had a lot to learn last year.

I'm just very thankful we've gotten this far in the tournament and our kids have the opportunity to play at Brown County Arena, because I think it's the best sectional atmosphere in the entire state. After we settle back and enjoy that accomplishment, we'll get to work and prepare.

In our part of the country, energy savings comes from high-efficiency furnaces. If folks only have X amount of dollars to replace both their furnace and air conditioner, the more they pay for the air conditioner, the less they have for the furnace. They will end up with a high SEER air conditioner they don't need, and settle for a lower efficiency furnace that wastes energy,

In our society, the pre-adolescent girl, the nubile virgin, the sexually active woman, the mother and the grandmother are all expected to look and behave in the same way. The correct body outline for them all is girlish; their voices should remain sweet and low, their manner accommodating. ... Kicking off leg-lengthening high-heeled shoes, wiping the colored grease off your lips, raising your voice, letting the grey come through your hair, ceasing the simper that lifts your cheeks and letting your jowls settle into disapproving shapes is seen as letting yourself go.

In the course of our negotiations, Premier Rugby made it quite clear they will settle for 50 percent of the Lions money. We thought it appropriate to use the rest of the money to help players whose lives were badly affected by injuries.

Instead of hugging everyone within a 10-row radius, you might have to settle for a few fast high-fives as you sprint down the aisle.

If you don't have success early, sometimes the momentum can switch over to the penalty killers in a hurry. And they fed off that and the building fed off that. I thought it was tough for us to settle down and relax ... It was a chance to gain momentum and we lost that chance.

In the first half, we knew both teams were going to play their hardest. They haven't been here for a long time. In the second half, we knew we had to settle down and execute. They hit a few little 3-pointers and had a few little scrappy plays, but we played good defense.

If you do your homework you will know what is fair and reasonable to ask for. Don't settle for less.

I'm not prepared to pay $18 million to settle that case.

I'm going up to win. I'm not going into this looking to settle with home-field advantage. We want to win this last regular season game and go into the district tournament on high note.

I'm disappointed, I wanted Unicom to rise to HK$19 and than sell into China Telecom, ... I think investors feel it's a bit expensive at HK$15.58 but it may settle and firm later in the day.

Not that people don't want to play you, but to settle on convenient dates for both parties.

The ball never came in my range today. I didn't play badly but it certainly wasn't good enough. I needed to settle down, but as soon as I tried to get a rally going, he would take his chances and hit some good passing shots. You've got to credit him with that.

That got Paul into a rhythm. We went back to the backfield they're comfortable with and that helped settle them down.

That first inning could have been a lot worse. When I went out there, I just told him to settle down, take a little off his fastball and to find some strikes. They were struggling to put the ball in play.

The border issue between China and India is one left over from history. It naturally takes time and patience on both sides to settle such issues.

Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems

Everyone goes through a stage where they want to leave home, ... Let the young people leave the community, but then hit them with incentives to return when they're ready to settle down.

Everyone has a physical team in its own way. It took us about a period and a half to settle down and get into this game. Once we did, I thought we were very physical with them.

The biggest thing I see is just raw talent. It's just scary to me that once they actually get game experience and calm down and settle down, how well they'll play together. Right now, they're just playing mostly off their raw talent.

The biggest thing is to keep focused. We need to get off to a fast start. Both teams are in a new environment with all the hoopla and the fans screaming and hollering. (The key will be) whoever can settle down first, I believe.

The big inning was nice because we had been popping the ball up for two innings. Then we started to get on top of the ball, we scored some runs and everyone started to settle down.

Everybody was a little off today, command-wise. Especially for the younger kids, there's always some jitters. They'll settle down.

Everybody was antsy, everybody was anxious, and it showed in our play. We got the first one out of the way, so now we can settle down a little bit.

Once he learns how to settle in ... he will be all right. I try to tell him sometimes go easy and pick your spots ... jab, jab, jab and then hook. But with him right now it's like hook, hook, hook, hook. But he is a great offensive player. He might get the start.

She likes to win. She came out a little bit nervous it takes a quarter to settle down sometimes but she's such a leader. The rest of the team feeds off her. When things don't go well for her, they usually don't go well for us.

She'll settle for being accepted. She's 58 years old. She is never going to be fairly compared to a 30-year-old princess in her prime and a very beautiful woman. Camilla's got different qualities.

On behalf of Martin County Coal, we're extremely pleased to have been able to settle the case for the actual damages these people suffered.

I want to prove to myself, most importantly, that I can do this. I've believed all along that I could, and I won't let myself down. I've made up my mind that this is what I want to do and I won't settle for anything else.

Nothing is over until it's over. What's really important is to let the dust settle a little and to let the implications of these hearings settle in.

I want to see Microsoft do something that can help them on a going concern, ... I'd rather see the company make some sort of deal but if there aren't any acquisitions available, I'd settle for a buyback.

It's nice to start the season with two wins and it was very pleasing to come from behind and win. I was pleased with our defense and thought our pitchers were competitive. Our hitters were anxious early on, but started to settle down in the fifth inning of the second game.

Absolutely, we're the target. We're the enemy, ... (The Iraqis) are a proud people, they've been around a lot longer than we have. They've going to win this themselves, they're going to settle this themselves. They have to, there's no alternative.

Danny we're just taking day by day, and his condition really hasn't changed. We're just hoping with the injection he had that he'll react good to it and this inflammation, or whatever it is, will settle down.

The Northeast will cool down over the weekend, spike to above-normal heating needs for Monday and Tuesday, but then settle back to just under normal for the rest of next week. The Midwest will be a lot cooler than it was in record- mild January, but still a little milder than normal.

The next time one of my clients gets named in a regulatory complaint, the resolution should be that the penny-stock company should spend millions on furniture and liquor for the company, and we'll settle the case,

Congresswoman Lee is a long-time advocate for both working people and patients. Her intervention at Eden Medical Center will help hospital management and SEIU members take one step closer towards a fair contract that puts quality patient care first. Our members look forward to negotiating with management to settle an industry standard contract and getting back to taking care of patients.

Do keep in mind that between now and 2006 nothing changes. 2006 will be a year of integration of brands, of divesting stores, etc. There will be a lot happening in 2006 and then the dust will settle in 2007.

It's safe to say our bullpen is going to be in a state of flux for the next two to three days. We're going to look at some guys and hopefully find some who will settle down the middle of our pen. There are guys down there (in the minors) who deserve an opportunity.

It's been pretty frustrating. It's obviously not the start I'd like to get off to, but there are a lot of good things I can take from today and build on. After the first inning, I pitched pretty well. I felt like I was able to settle in and get a lot of guys out after that.

At this stage we are not ready to settle for anything less than our objectives.

That's as impressive a record as any that he's got. A lot of times he's already locked up a spot in the line-up, but he never will settle for less than his best effort.

It seemed like whoever ascended to the top of the heap would quickly give it away. Nobody could settle into that position last year.

It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

It's both a precedent and a permanent answer to a permanent problem -- a life-and-death problem -- and why should we settle for anything less? And why should any other communities and citizens have to settle for anything less?

Its very easy to settle for a life of mediocrity. What makes you a man is when you make the hard choice to live a life of greatness

They did a good job of pressuring us and we were hesitant. We weren't as aggressive as we usually play. I was always confident that we would settle down. It's an awesome experience to go through that and be able to win. We stay poised and that's one more thing we can take with us the rest of the postseason.

It takes the tree at least one season to settle in and get growing again, but with Dave and Sam's care, they grow faster.

It takes times to get games and get situated. For us, it's going to take time to settle down and really grow in this market. So it's in our best interest to have a long preseason so people get to know us.

It took us a while to settle down in the box and really get our goals. The girls have been confident throughout (the losses), and we've been playing some good competition. They knew the first win was coming.

It took awhile for both teams to settle in and start scoring. We were patient, and when the opportunities came around we took advantage of them. That was the key.

It was just a point where I had to let everybody settle down and get to their spots before we started running the offense. The offense became more efficient against Wake Forest. I'm trying to keep that same tempo and just slow down a little bit and just see the floor a little bit better.

It will at least preclude lawyers like me from saying they've resolved to never settle any,

They (defense companies) are beginning to settle down in their operations at a much higher level than they were three or four years ago as they become much more efficient. What we are seeing now is some fear (of budget cuts) being dissipated by the strong performance.

I just told him to settle in because I thought he was rushing it a little bit. Once he got out of the second, he cruised pretty much.

If you took out energy stocks, results would be much different. They'd settle around 6.5 percent growth.

Clay just finished with basketball, and I know he's going to settle down and pitch well for us this year.

I just felt that our mistakes could have gone our way. We came out a little scared. Our games with BC are usually back and forth, but the girls really started to settle and the momentum shifted back and forth a lot.

If there was an easy way to settle this we would have found it a long time ago.

I had a good feeling about tonight. I don't know, maybe we were too ready. We needed to settle down and after we did, the game went our way.

I have worked with a basketball player who said he was always told to get up before a game. Then he would go to the game and in the first five minutes, the ball would fall off his hands. He learned that before the game, rather than getting excited, he needed to do things to settle himself down.

I just tried to talk to her and get her to settle down after that first big jump, because she was jumping all over the place in celebration afterwards. It's like hitting a home run in baseball. The next time at bat, you swing so hard you can't even see the ball. I wanted her to stay focused.

I just wanted our guys to settle down. We have experienced guys; they know how to handle it.

Hey, Dennis, this is Mike! Kick me, please! I'll settle for the price of a set of golf clubs.

In the second half, we really tried to slow it down and run our half-court offense. We're going to have to deal with that because we're not going to outrun everybody in the state. We're going to have be prepared to settle down.

If you settle for less, you get less. If you settle for the best, you get the best.

I have talked to all of the parties involved and sensed a willingness to bring the matter to a closure. The time is ripe to settle it.

I just forgot about it. I knew I'd be getting some run support. All I had to do was settle down and get warmed up a little bit.

I just remember that there were a couple of times I was dating somebody for a relatively long period of time, and by the time New Year's came around and made its way to Valentine's Day, I remember thinking I was really letting myself settle for feelings I really didn't feel satisfied with. Valentine's Day is really a time where you take a look where you are.

I just think we need to let the dust settle over the next few weeks and see how all of this plays out.

I just wanted to be aggressive. On the road, you don't want to settle for jump shots. I was going to the hole and getting to everyone's body. I was trying to finish over them and create contact.

Chimneys and attics are top choices for the moms to place their litters. Homeowners should home-proof now, to avoid conflict before the animals settle in.

He sets the standard really high, especially at the quarterback position and he isn't going to settle for anything less. Bottom line is he just wants you to do things his way and if you do that, things will work out and he will be happy and you won't have that friction as long as things are going well. It isn't all the on the quarterback but you just have to make it right.

He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less.

He's such a dominant political figure. Now, more than ever, is the party that he just formed so dominant in the polls that it really shakes the whole political system to its core. It's impossible to say how it's going to settle down until we see whether he recovers or what shape he's going to be in.

He's starting to settle down more. He's able to adjust in a fight. If his punching is not working, he can box. If his boxing is not working, he can punch. He's just developing. He listens. And he learns.

He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove.

I'll settle for a few days like this.

Buying products over the Internet with a credit card has become a common occurrence, but viewing the credit card bill itself and submitting a payment to settle it electronically is still considered a novelty. However, this will change as electronic bill presentment and payment products become more sophisticated, with the inclusion of features such as secure e-mail delivery, and as the technology becomes increasingly implemented in business-to-business ecommerce.

Chad is very eager to see the international community, in particular the African Union, settle this crisis.

Honestly, we know that we're fighting for a playoff position. I just don't want to settle for the eighth spot. If we play these games out and win most of them, we can get up to the seventh, or maybe even the sixth spot.

Hopefully now that we're older we'll have to settle down. Maybe when we're old women we'll do a third one. We are old women.

He took over the game with his drives to the basket in the fourth quarter. He puts so much pressure on the defense, doesn't settle for jumpers. When the double-team comes, he finds the open players, making it easier on him in the long run.

I don't push my drums down; I go through 'em. I use my body as a battering ram. I had some sports therapists yelling at me for not taking better care of my body. I got a concussion bake in Rhode Island--no,that's where I got thrown around by this bouncer. I got the concussion in New York City. The paramedics wanted to take me to the hospital right there. But I was like, 'No, I'm cool. It's not like I'm going to settle down. I thought it was funny. The thing is, I could never afford to just trash my drums like that before, until I got my deal with Slingerland.

I didn't say anything to the team afterwards, ... When I get angry after a game I have learned from experience that it's best that I control myself and let things settle down a bit.

I didn't realize they had a 24-hour period they could wait for these things to settle down. I'm fired up about this. I don't understand it.

How does the primary tumor cause the bone marrow cells to settle somewhere and provide a fertile field for metastasis - does it send out chemicals that stimulate the bone marrow cells? And why do those bone marrow cells settle where they do? It also opens possibilities for other avenues of attack against the cancer to prevent its spread. Before anything else, however, other researchers need to confirm that these findings are true.

He's the heart and soul of this team. He's the guy the other players look to on the field. He's almost a father figure out there. He's the one to settle the team down, the moral leader for us.

How dare you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Clearly the Iran situation is the key focus at the moment, our view is that eventually it will settle down, but it's expected to rumble on for a while and so maybe at the margins slightly supportive of the safe-haven currencies like the Swiss Franc.