Cope Quotes

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

Funny, Dance, Mad

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.
Virginia Satir

Life, Makes, Difference

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
Douglas Adams

Problem, Repeat, Normality

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.
Caleb Carr

True, Job, Human

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Charlie Chaplin

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung

Help, Evil, Darkness

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King

Help, Real, Horrors

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.
George Santayana

Ignore, Living, Wrong

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Women, Great, Men

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba

Nature, Strength, Racism

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
Terry Pratchett

Family, Society, Care

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Robin Williams

Reality, Crutch

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.
Jerry Saltz

Life, Happy, Energy

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
Allen Klein

Humor, Help, Situation

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.
Marshall McLuhan

Live, Living, State

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).
James Thurber

Husband, Situation, Might

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.
Tom Cruise

Problems, Either, Swim

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
David Attenborough

Death, Mean, Else

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Self, Impossible, Difficult

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
Gene Tierney

Future, Past, Able

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.
Iain Duncan Smith

Same, Broken, Kids

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.
Alan Shepard

Great, Best, Wanted

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jack Nicklaus

Best, Possible, Trouble

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al Pacino

Learned, Language, Shy

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
Al Pacino

Career, Remember, Gone

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
Laura Hillenbrand

Suffering, Learn, Overcome

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
Laura Hillenbrand

Life, Suffering, Difficult

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
Gary Numan

Long, Person, Understand

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again.
Christopher Nolan

Happy, Yourself, Strange

And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Alan Shepard

Time, Business, True

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