The Rise Of Shams Quotes

The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what’s below it

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

The work of fate is a mystery

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Not long ago, man grew a sense of conscience. He defined himself by what he is, what he thinks, and, more importantly, what he feels—failing to realize that all come from One single source. All of man’s qualities come from One divine being. And that One being has bestowed nature’s hand with the ability to balance itself. Where there is good, there is also evil. And where evil arises, so does good

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

An evil brute grows strong and now is on the verge of crossing over from the island to the world you know. His name is Hubal, and his strength grows as your world’s lightness folds.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Winning Expo 2020 marked the city’s coronation and the world could no longer deny Dubai its rightful status as one of the era’s more illustrious cities. The people who flocked there were looking for some sort of magic to occur in their lives, and life on the beach under these concrete gazebos offered many blessings. Some found riches. Some found religion. Some found love. And some, most importantly of all, found themselves.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

They were nothing more than modern day pagan worshippers. Congregants of a religion built on greed and hedonism. The trading floor served as their shrine, the phones as their Holy Grail, and the clients as the prophets who would entitle them to choose between putting the next down payment on a Lamborghini or a Mercedes

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Pilgrims from all over the world were making their way to the place deemed the pearl of the Middle East. The city was reminiscent of a modern-day Persepolis. Its buildings, like towering pillars, tested the sky’s limit. The evenly paved roads belched with the smell of new tarmac, as if a million masons woke up every morning and by hand lay asphalt one grain at a time. People of all colors, ethnicities, creed and social statuses came bearing money, knowledge or experience in order to build their legacies in the new kingdom, sprouting out of the desert. Dubai had arrived.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Luck is the devil with a halo

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

And envy, envious of a time when the poet, the mystic, the scientist and the statesman were nobler than the merchant.

~ Soroosh Shahrivar