Quotes about dealing
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“Out of unmeasurable Complexities; one requires the ability to streamline and become Simple in Life…
In order to effectively and efficiently
address issues in our internal life
and ineluctably,
deal with
external forces that rip us open.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Life

“I speak a language full and intelligible. I deal not in hints and intimations. [...] First, that I may be clearly understood. Secondly, that it may be seen I am in earnest; and, thirdly, because it is an affront to truth to treat falsehood with complaisance.”

Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part III (1807)

Truth, Intelligence

“I like the word fuck. Fucking deal with it and move on to the first fucking question you have.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

Interview. Citation needed.

Question

“Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.”

D.J. MacHale The Soldiers of Halla

Source: The Soldiers of Halla

Past, Future

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life, Death, Nature, Parting

“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Fear, Personality

“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Katniss, pp. 31-32
Variant: Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
Like me, for instance. Right now.
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

People

“If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you‟re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn‟t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Mr. Perfect

Life, Disappointment, Problem, Perfection

“When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Men

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Marriage, Happiness, Relationship, Wedding

“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

World, Hope, Positive

“My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Truth, Beauty, Sincerity

“Why? Why would you do that?”
"You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Jealousy, Way

“Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open."

Have you been watching Oprah again?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Stupidity, Way

“Holly: Stay back human. You don't know what you're dealing with.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl (2001)

“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight… I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Being Peace

Love, Fight, Anger

“Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.”

Lauren Myracle (1969) American children's writer

Life

“Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.”

Doug MacLeod (1959) Australian writer

Life, Dead

“You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Clean Sweep

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Women, Men

“Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

People, Way

“It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.'
Because he got hurt?'
No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Fear, Penalty, Imagination, Hurt

“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Death, Men, Justice, Beauty

“You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire.
Do you really think so?'
Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.'
I don't like the wood elves.'
They're okay. They're misunderstood.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Thinking

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Feeling, Thinking, Sport, Suffering

“Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

Time

“Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

People, Idea

“It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.”

Anne Tyler book Back When We Were Grownups

Source: Back When We Were Grownups

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”

Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men

Source: Twelve Angry Men

Courage, Courageous

“I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Hope

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Letters and Social Aims

People, Tea

“God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

God

“Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Money doesn't spend in hell, Wilkes. The devil deals in a different coin.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Money, Hell

“He'd told her that the phrase deal with the Devil came from him; Ellie felt like she was on the verge of selling her soul.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Soul

“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Tithe

Love, Family, Way, Moms

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”

George Eliot book Daniel Deronda

Book 3, Ch. 24
Source: Daniel Deronda (1876)

Country

“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Life

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, Pain, Suffering

“The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that.

It has to do with cutting the right deal.”

Nelson DeMille (1943) American writer

Life, Evil, Country

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Love, Life, Passion, Time

“A disciple… can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

Life, Way, Problem, Learning

“If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

“Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

Source: Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

Light

“Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”

John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

Attributed in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) by Dale Carnegie

People, Coffee, Sun

“Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Life, Way

“Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blood Noir

Source: Blood Noir

“Thanks for putting me up for it…." As V's eyes flared, Butch said, "Yeah, I looked up what the word meant. 'Beloved Friend' fits you perfect as far as I'm concerned."

V Flushed. Cleared his throat. "Good Deal, cop. Good… deal.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Perfection

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) American journalist and author

Drink, Personality

“And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy."”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy (1 August 1963), Public Papers of the Presidents 321, p. 620
1963

Life, Thinking

“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Love, Soul, Suffering, Learning

“I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”

Joan Didion Where I Was From

Source: Where I Was From

Way, Box

“Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

Way

“There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.”

John Wyndham book The Chrysalids

Source: Ch 1 - p.391, 392 [Page numbers per the Michael Joseph "The John Wyndham Omnibus" hardback 1964. 'The Chrysalids' features at pp.383-532

“You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Mister, we deal in lead.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: Wolves of the Calla

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”

Bob Newhart (1929) American stand-up comedian and actor

Laughter, Moving On

“You both… you both saved me?"

"Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

Heart

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) French photographer

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”

Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist

As quoted in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations (1993) by Dorothy Winbush Riley.

Reality

“There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is
that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow
through on some things.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Variant: There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.
Source: Love, Rosie

Life

“Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Echoes at Dawn

Life, People, Time

“You screamed.” Will said. “Is that all you did?”
“I screamed a great deal.” Tatiana sounded injured.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

People, Suffering, Personality

“The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Address to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Boston, Massachusetts (30 July 1903), printed in "Account of the Boston Riot," Boston Globe (31 July 1903) http://web.archive.org/20071031084056/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.7/html/235.html

World

“Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

Death, Dreams

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

Hostility, People, Hell, Thinking

“Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare.
"The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Winter

“Put on your big girl pants and deal.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Variant: Pull up your big girl panties and just do it.
Source: Lover Avenged

Girl

“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.”

Joan Lowery Nixon (1927–2003) American children's writer and journalist

Source: In The Face of Danger

Life, Bad luck, Problem

“Life it too short to deal with crazy people.”

Karen E. Quinones Miller (1958) American writer

Life, People

“All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Men, God, World, Way

“We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.

Love, Deep, Friendship, Relationship

“I assure you he died screaming like a girl. (Daimon)
Oh, I am so offended by that. What is the deal with that sexist statement? I’m a female and I don’t scream. But I’ve killed many a male Daimon who did. (Danger)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Girl

“You’re seventeen. You’re supposed to be dealing with school and hormones and dim-witted parents. You’re supposed to be finding out who you are as a person.”
“But I already know who I am,” Valkyrie said. “I’m a world-breaker.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Kingdom of the Wicked

World, School, Parent, Personality

“I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”

Laurell K. Hamilton A Kiss of Shadows

Source: A Kiss of Shadows

Love, People, Idea

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.”

Alain de Botton book The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

Love, Beauty, Way, Feeling

“You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

Light

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Variant: When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

People, Motivation

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.”

Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer

Love, Faith, Dogs, Universe

“Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Hope, Thinking

“There are men you build a future with, Dani. And then there are men that you know, going in, that you're only making a memory with. I know the difference
.. Some memories are worth the price. I'll deal with it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Men, Memory, Future

“These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Life, Problem, Help

“A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Love, Hate, Question

“Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Success

“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”

Jean Webster (1876–1916) American novelist

Pleasure

“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”

James Agee book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

“When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Problem

“There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Variant: There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.
Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Heart

“She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Way, Time

“You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.”

François Lelord (1953) French writer

Happiness, People, Question

“The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.”

Isaac Asimov book Foundation and Empire

Source: Foundation and Empire

Law, Error, History

“If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Variant: If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.
Source: Just Listen

Change, Parting

“High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.”

David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

School

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