There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
John Lindsay

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

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

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
Nick Hornby

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

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

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

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
Adele Faber

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

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.
Antony Jay