Cope Quotes

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. (Stephen King)
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). View quote
James Thurber
I look at an ant and see myself: a native South African, endowed with a strength much greater than my size, so I might cope with the weight of racism that crushes my spirit. View quote
Miriam Makeba
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. View quote
George Santayana
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. View quote
Caleb Carr
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul. View quote
George Harrison
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. View quote
Douglas Adams
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. View quote
Frank Auerbach
If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days. (Kris Carr)
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us. View quote
Thomas Traherne
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope – an impotence, in short and to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all... View quote
John Fowles
We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength. A defensive campaign can only be made successful by taking the aggressive at the proper time. Napoleon never waited for his adversary to become fully prepared, but struck him the first blow. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three.” Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. View quote
Virginia Satir
A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc. View quote
Kyuzo Mifune
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. (Richard Morgan)
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with. View quote
John Brunner
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day. View quote
Ann Landers