Chance Quote by Robert M. Hutchins Download Open image “...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.” — Robert M. Hutchins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Chances are Darkness Death Dies Light Overwhelming Tasks
Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. — Sherlock Holmes Copy Share Image
I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do. — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
“To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm… — Stipe Miocic Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image