Cope Quotes - page 2

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament. (Victor Hugo)
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs. View quote
William J. Brennan
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. View quote
Robin Williams
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes. View quote
Kent Beck
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry. View quote
Andrew Solomon
It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead. View quote
Warren Adler
He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend. (Hubert Selby Jr.)
No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it. View quote
Graham Norton
The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. View quote
Deborah Moggach
I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents. View quote
Richard Hammond
Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. View quote
Elizabeth Bear
In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. View quote
Iain Duncan Smith
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems. (Edgar H. Schein)
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along. View quote
Allen Klein
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. View quote
Allen Klein
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies? View quote
Andrew Shue
You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. View quote
Antony Jay