Quotes & Sayings About Shia

But Shia scholars would maintain that Muhammad had long before made the divinely guided choice of his closest male relative - his son-in-law Ali - as his successor. He had done so many times, in public, they would say, and if Ali's enemies had not thwarted the Prophet's will, he would certainly have done so again, one last time, as he lay dying in that small chamber alongside the mosque. — Anonymous

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course. — Shia Labeouf

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos. — Shia Labeouf

My parents are retired, basically. — Shia Labeouf

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. — Shia Labeouf

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense. — Shia Labeouf

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things. — Shia Labeouf

My family, my parents are hippies. — Shia Labeouf

The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire. — Shia Labeouf

I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso! — Shia Labeouf

The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces. — Richard Dawkins

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. — Shia Labeouf

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it. — Shia Labeouf

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character. — Shia Labeouf

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts. — John Kasich

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. — Shia Labeouf

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. — Shia Labeouf

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone. — Shia Labeouf

I started out as a writer with an hour removed from Kingdom of Heaven. You have to make one print for the entire world, and that's something that influences the theatrical cuts of pictures to an enormous degree. It's a reality. You can't have one cut for the Sunni, and one for the Shia, and one each for Tories, Whigs, vegetarians, one cut for the Cineplex, and one for literary intellectuals. — William Monahan

Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of young actors I'm surrounded by is incredible. When you have people like that around you it amps you up a little bit. Also, Emile Hirsch and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or guys like Ryan Gosling. It's a really good crowd and I feel I'm coming up at a good time. But equally, there's a lot of good young actors who don't get to work who are more talented than I. I'm just lucky. — Shia Labeouf

I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person. — Maddie Ziegler

To read an expert contribution on growing up Muslim in America by Abdu Murray, a lawyer, apologist, former Shia Muslim, and author of two published books on Islam and other major worldviews, click here. — Nabeel Qureshi

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular. — William Kristol

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight. — David Petraeus

The most complete gift of God is a life based on knowledge. — Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it. — Shia Labeouf

Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and Shia Muslims who are at grave risk, as well as tens of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities. We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands. — Barack Obama

I don't think the whole of Iraq would be under al-Sadr, but I think he would be the predominant force on the Shia side. Quite contrary to his sort of maverick, firebrand image, he's shown a propensity to deal with the other side, to look for compromises, to negotiate. You might have a loose federation [in Iraq]. — Patrick Cockburn

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds. — Shia Labeouf

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner. — Shia Labeouf

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery. — Shia Labeouf

I'm not a star, I'm an actor. — Shia Labeouf

There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication. — Christopher Hitchens

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime. — Shia Labeouf

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy. — Shia Labeouf

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan. — Shia Labeouf

A relationship to me is never about the romance. — Shia Labeouf

I got accepted at Yale but never went. — Shia Labeouf

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody. — Shia Labeouf

Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non Arabs'. — Ali Khamenei

The comic book world is a tough business. — Shia Labeouf

If I want to party, I'll party at my house. — Shia Labeouf

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team. — Shia Labeouf

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me. — Shia Labeouf

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap. — Shia Labeouf

It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about. — Shia Labeouf

The best movies are simple. — Shia Labeouf

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad. — Shia Labeouf

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. — Shia Labeouf

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career. — Shia Labeouf

I never get in trouble. — Shia Labeouf

Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing. — Shia Labeouf

This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them. — Chuck Hagel

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one. — Shia Labeouf

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting. — John Kasich

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story. — Shia Labeouf

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor. — Shia Labeouf

I'm not that smooth. — Shia Labeouf

I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia. — Nawal El Saadawi

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day. — Shia Labeouf

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything ... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind. — Shia Labeouf

Oh, I've been in love with every woman I've ever worked with. — Shia Labeouf

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping. — Shia Labeouf

Shia phobia or Sunni phobia ... we never hear about this. They murder each other! — Manfred Gerstenfeld

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle. — Shia Labeouf

I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships. — Shia Labeouf

I think envy motivates a lot of people. — Shia Labeouf

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies. — Shia Labeouf

But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over. — Patrick Cockburn

I'm a little territorial and defensive. I don't like having my space invaded. — Shia Labeouf

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning. — Shia Labeouf

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. — Shia Labeouf

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. — Simon Hoggart

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet. — Shia Labeouf

People think that their vote counts. They go to college, and everything gets mixed up. People stop caring, ... They raise the gas prices, but what the Everyman makes and welfare never seem to keep up. The HMO system is so ridiculous. I'm slightly educated. No one wants to hear what Hilary Duff thinks of the economy. — Shia Labeouf

Sweet Shia, only bloody dragons would fly as fast as they could towards their greatest enemy! Anyone with sense would run the other way. — Elizabeth Kerner

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems. — Shia Labeouf

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have a Sons of Iraq here. We don't have the same divisions here that we had between Sunni and Shia. — Rahm Emanuel

I'm an individual, and I have opinions. — Shia Labeouf

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. — Shia Labeouf

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood. — Shia Labeouf

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now. — Shia Labeouf

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be. — Shia Labeouf

I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car. — Shia Labeouf

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in. — Shia Labeouf

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore. — Shia Labeouf

I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert Grint and Til Schweiger and those guys, so you really want to make sure that they, that I don't have to shut off the camera because I'm running out of film or it becomes too expensive. — Fredrik Bond

US Vice President Joe Biden gave the US government's real view of its regional and Syrian allies with undiplomatic frankness when speaking at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard University's Institute of Politics on October 2. He told his audience that Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and UAE were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war. What did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad, except that the people who were being supplied were al-Nusra and al-Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world. — Patrick Cockburn

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. — Shia Labeouf

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. — Shia Labeouf

My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude. — Shia Labeouf

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted. — Shia Labeouf

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack. — Shia Labeouf

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is. — Shia Labeouf

Nobody strives to lose. — Shia Labeouf

I don't have many actor friends. — Shia Labeouf

I drink protein shakes nonstop - three or four a day - and I run a lot, so you get rid of the bad carbs and keep the rest so you have the energy to make it through. — Shia Labeouf

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school. — Shia Labeouf

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance. — Shia Labeouf