Jack Palance Quotes

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

There is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

I want a one hundred percent guarantee that they’ll all be fine.” I tell Mrs. Garcia. She pats my knee. “Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

In this world, only winter is certain

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.