Shaquille O'Neal Quotes

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

You make your own choices. Even extramarital affair, it's your own decision. And you suffer for it and pay for it. That's what 'Ankahee' is all about.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.