Top 100 Cope Quotes
#1. 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.
Kent Beck
#2. Muddling along ... is the great secret to life ... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen - Gallen in Intrigues
Mercedes Lackey
#3. During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.
Edward Bunker
#4. 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.
Andrew Solomon
#5. My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.
Sebastian Horsley
#6. Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.
Theodore Zeldin
#7. 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
#8. experience of OCD is feeling very much out of control of your mind. When you don't see yourself as separate from your mind, you may feel as if you are doing whatever your mind is doing. That means you not only are being asked to cope with
Jon Hershfield
#9. We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.
Lance Armstrong
#10. I used to believe that the experiences life throws at us shape us. Now I think that it's the way we cope with what life throws our way that shapes us.
Layla Hagen
#11. I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.
Jenji Kohan
#12. There were just fucked-up people trying to cope as best they knew how with things they had no understanding of. Over
Mary Coughlan
#13. 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
#14. I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope. The only way to make sense of something as colossal and and intimidating as the world is to make it about you.
Emma Mills
#15. I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
William Friedkin
#16. Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
Vik Muniz
#17. 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
#18. It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.
Ingrid Betancourt
#19. I love words! I believe in their power to soothe, to comfort, to heal. I believe in their ability to inspire, to capture the unthinkable, to help us cope with the unimaginable.
Emma Kavanagh
#20. You cope knowing I love you, that's how you cope. I fucking love you, he hisses.
Katy Evans
#21. Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a part of a show that has such unique characters.
Mark Indelicato
#22. the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.
Guy Deutscher
#23. I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.
Holly Madison
#24. How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?
Willi Unsoeld
#25. I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.
Merrill Markoe
#26. It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.
Jack Higgins
#28. The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.
Billy Graham
#29. Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.
Victor Hugo
#30. By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.
Lisa J. Shultz
#31. The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.
John Bradshaw
#32. I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.
Jamie Dornan
#33. The youth of Idaho falls should be encouraged to take drugs in order to cope up with the fact that there is plutonium in their drinking water.
Bill Bryson
#34. May you always have extraordinary grace and faith to cope with the uncertainties of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying ...
Eva Longoria
#36. For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.
Nelson Mandela
#37. True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.
Julian Baggini
#38. We defeated the Dark Fae King. We can cope with one precocious child.
Thea Harrison
#39. My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.
Cristela Alonzo
#40. Those who play the 'innocent' role are nothing more than foolish and ignorant masses who close their minds to the true nature of the world. Innocence is nothing more than an illusion created by mortal kind to cope with what they don't understand.
Brittany Comeaux
#41. We must not stint
Our necessary actions in the fear
To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing.
William Shakespeare
#42. We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.
Judith Viorst
#43. You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.
George Lucas
#44. My need to be where it is quiet is a real need. The world is way too intense to cope with every day.
Tina J. Richardson
#45. Trust me, at the time nine hundred years seemed frighteningly short - it still does. I really don't know how you cope with your eighty-something life spans, and that's a best-case scenario, isn't it?
Tosca Lee
#46. Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.
Jane Wagner
#47. There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
#48. The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.
Jose Saramago
#49. I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.
Hiam Abbass
#50. There is also a CAN OF PEANUTS on the desk. Ha ha, oh DAD. You won't be falling for THAT one again any time soon.
A severe peanut allergy is a terrible affliction to cope with.
Andrew Hussie
#51. Maybe that's how it starts. You stumble upon something that helps you cope, fills a void. Makes you feel something different than what you currently feel. You know in the long run it probably won't be good for you, but you do it anyway. Tell yourself you can handle it.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#52. It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.
Lisa Firestone
#53. The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.
Amitai Etzioni
#54. It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.
Chuck Klosterman
#55. The powers of nature are so great, and our power is so inept. So,in order to cope with the incredible anxiety that human self-consciousness produced, I think we created God in our own image, and then portrayed this God as having supernatural power that we didn't have.
John Shelby Spong
#56. I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.
Johanna Siguroardottir
#57. Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.
David D. Burns
#58. The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
Madeleine L'Engle
#59. 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
#60. I know part of my sorrow is just disguised self-pity, I needed that exchange and I worry how I'll cope without it and whether I can replace it - if only it were as easy as buying a new dog.
William Boyd
#61. I've had it with this waiting business. I can cope with another woman, but I can't cope with being ignored when there's nothing in his way.
Melina Marchetta
#62. 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.
Robert A. Heinlein
#63. Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt to cope with adverse internal stimuli or to protect oneself from a deeper processing of information that threatens self-esteem.
Thomas Metzinger
#64. God does not interfere with fate; he simply helps man cope with it.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#65. The full ethereal round, Infinite worlds disclosing to the view, Shines out intensely keen; and all one cope Of starry glitter glows from pole to pole. THE
Henry David Thoreau
#66. I'm not a child. Don't talk to me like I am. (Kiara)
No, you're worse. You're an adult who still thinks the world is a beautiful place, filled with people who will help you just for the sake of being nice. Wake up and smell the bloodbath and humility the rest of us have to cope with. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. I do feel like I've missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.
Zayn Malik
#68. Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#69. Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?
Steve Goodier
#71. Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!
Anne Frank
#72. The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.
James Huxley
#73. We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.
George Wald
#74. Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.
Dalai Lama XIV
#76. Love is impatient; love is cruel. It gets your hopes up then tears them down expecting you to be ok; able to cope without that second part of you that belongs to one unique person.
Alexandria Rhodes
#77. Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.
Ellyn Satter
#78. If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.
Joan Sutherland
#79. I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
Werner Herzog
#80. With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.
Khloe Kardashian
#81. I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.
David Toop
#82. We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. In so many ways this
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#83. I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.
Red Auerbach
#84. If you can cope the pride when winning,
then you can confront despair when lose.
Toba Beta
#85. If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.
Alan Shearer
#86. And people are so het up about the fact I'm in the theatre - it's like, 'Ooh these telly names, can they be any good?' I came out of RADA and my first job was at the National Theatre, but everyone wonders if I can cope. It makes me laugh.
Joanna Page
#87. When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.
Jeremy Hunt
#88. 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.
Isabelle Huppert
#89. Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it. Anonymous
Dan Millman
#90. The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.
Peter Capaldi
#91. COPE
Create Options Pending Emergence
Kamil Ali
#92. If you want to find out how resourceful you can be, shrink your budget. Move your deadlines up. See how you cope. This may make you more resilient to actual hardships that inevitably arise.
Reid Hoffman
#93. Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
#94. While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it
Jeremy Griffith
#95. Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.
Stephanie Lawton
#96. Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes:
At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle.
The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle.
And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle,
And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.
Helen Fielding
#97. Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
Murray Edelman
#98. We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
Herbert Benson
#99. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
Douglas Adams
#100. You have to be careful around miracles, around extraordinary highs, because they're disruptive to your regular life...you have to cope when they end.
Anya Ulinich
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