Cope Quotes

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

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

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.

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?

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

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.

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.

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

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

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.

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

It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.

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.

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

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

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

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

I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me.

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.

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

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

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.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

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.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.