Soroosh Shahrivar Quotes

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.

The timepiece had been a birthday gift from Arian, his nineteen-year-old cousin in Tehran. It was plastered with pastoral steel and had the Faravahar hieroglyph sketched on it. This ancient pictogram was the symbol of a guardian angel. A remnant of a primeval daemon designed to protect the Persians. The clock's circumference was decorated with the flowers of life and in the middle there was a scripture written in cuneiform that read Good Deeds, Good Thoughts & Good Words.

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

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

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

We are nothing more than a dot amongst the billions of organisms on the Hillis plot

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.

Now I know why I have struggled with my drinking all these years 'cause I see your face every time I pick a glass.

He had risen from the core of the earth but now was at the core of it all. He was with God.

The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

Love liberates us from all primal urges

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

A gathering nimbus obscured the sun's light and out from the gathered clouds looped and coiled the guardian of the avian world. With a trail of inferno in her wake, it was Alicanto

The work of fate is a mystery

The yachts' berth was next to the Yas Marina Circuit, where Formula 1 would come into town once a year. At night, when the lights on its orbicular architecture switched on, the circuit would radiate like a constellation of stars

You are most beautiful in your purest form. You are a manifestation of God himself. Open your eyes and let the light flow right through to your core. All it takes is for you to notice a flicker of leaves, a momentary glance from a loved one, or for a wave to hit your toes and freeze you in that timeless place where you know with every cell in your body that God, indeed is real.

Boiling point. Voice it roars
Running down memory's corridor
Life's a game, it ends one day

And everything's fair in love and war

Happiness is nothing more than an emotional euphoria

The impetus he had gained from the whimsical seraph known as Syoshant had been short-lived

We were so good, playing the blame game
Now we both lose, playing the love game.

These little black circular shapes were a result of him being a carrier of a parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii

The day you are born is the day you start dying

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

For it is when calm clouds gather that thunder is made

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

Eshgham, a term of endearment meaning my love

One glance. Once stare.
Was all it took to take my lungs to long for air.
The moment I saw you, is the moment I found myself.
It was unreal; this love thrill,
My soul it manifest. I was obsessed.
Maybe that's where I went wrong, love possessed.
Forced to cross the Rubicon, no protest.
From your end 'cause we shared the same sentiment
Love we earned, time we burned, look at what we've done.
Now we at the point of no return, no taking it back.
Our world like centre CERN, particles go round and back.
All we do is speak out of turn,
Argue, push buttons;
I guess that's the straw hun,
That broke the camel's back.

The messiah arrives when it is already too late. He arrives when doomsday has already struck

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

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

Kanye lied when he said diamonds are forever
When the heat is high, it's the same as lead on paper

We gradually recreate the movie World War Z
Our worst disease becomes our best form of remedy

Moving sands, no firm ground, we live in fear
We join hands, bottle down, pop the Belvedere

Now the question is have we all punched our clocks? Social media, we fit in a damn box

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.

Dubai, with all of its glitz and glamour rose in the heart of the desert.

Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served.