Events Quotes

“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”
― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays

“Was Ali a poor, illiterate, village boy when he met Wallace, as has generally been believed? Or, did he have an important and interesting backstory?”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“Wallace travelled independently and was challenged every step. He had no government or military support system. He had little cash — he earned enough to survive by sending natural history specimens to his agent in London for sale to collectors and museums. He had visceral moments of excitement when he discovered a beautiful new butterfly or adopted a baby orangutan he had just orphaned by shooting its mother. He lived simply, often in the rainforest on isolated islands, in a manner completely different to the expected behavior of other Western explorers and colonials.”
― Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

“We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds.”
― Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden

“Pat and Ian have since been to Kalgoorlie with metal detectors, scouring the red dirt in the hope of locating Lisa’s remains. If her clothes had something metal attached then the metal detector just might pick that up. Ian would locate something of interest with the detector then Pat would get down on her hands and knees and dig at the dirt, searching for her buried child.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“People just didn’t seem interested. Now, with social media, if someone goes missing you hear about it straightaway. I just got to the stage where I was really disillusioned with everything. When they were talking about this new police operation … why couldn’t they have done something like this earlier? None of the men who were around then are probably still alive.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“Century follows century, yet events occur only
in the present”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths

“It's not here anymore," he said.

"What?"

"What happened."

"Then where is it?"

"It's gone. It's over. You can't find it, stroke it, coo over it. Time has stolen it away like it fucking steals everything. In rare instances, like yours, that can be a good thing.”
― Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

“An event without an Usher is like a Christmas without Santa.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“Care for the guests as you would your parents.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“The events in our world are a wake-up call. And if the gravity of these events are such that they don’t wake us up, we were probably never asleep in the first place. What we were was in denial.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What works instead is thinking about the world as a network of events. Simple events, and more complex events that can be disassembled into combinations of simpler ones. A few examples: a war is not a thing, it’s a sequence of events. A storm is not a thing, it’s a collection of occurrences. A cloud above a mountain is not a thing, it is the condensation of humidity in the air that the wind blows over the mountain. A wave is not a thing, it is a movement of water, and the water that forms it is always different. A family is not a thing, it is a collection of relations, occurrences, feelings. And a human being? Of course it’s not a thing; like the cloud above the mountain, it’s a complex process, where food, information, light, words, and so on enter and exit. . . . A knot of knots in a network of social relations, in a network of chemical processes, in a network of emotions exchanged with its own kind.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

“Ushers are the backbone of events. Without them, a function can’t run smoothly.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“Consider every event you attend as a school, and learn from other Ushers!”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“Thank the guests for coming! You may say it’s none of your business, but it’s still part of your job.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“Too many of my friends have turned to apathy. While events change our lives, intention changes the trajectory.”
― Richie Norton

“My two weeks here are filled with activities. Private lessons in Japanese history, language, and arts. Tours of shrines, temples, and tombs. A visit to the imperial stock farm and wild duck preserves. Assorted banquets. Outings with my father---a baseball game, public art exhibit opening.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“I always found myself working around the edges of events known only as the Calamities. I have always been fascinated with the histories of our distant past, as well as the lessons therein”
― Victoria Aveyard, Broken Throne

“2022 will be remembered as the year Florida fed a sanitized version of events from the hurricane Ian disaster to the world.”
― Steven Magee

“The historical nature of the Desoto Solar Farm dictates that true events are documented in American historical records.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a historian.”
― Steven Magee

“You can lie to me and I can remember events that may be used against you in the future.”
― Steven Magee

“There is an appropriate time in the future to publicly discuss the truth about historic past events on social media.”
― Steven Magee

“This just became the must-attend service of the year.”
― Christina Estes, Off the Air

“There is what you intend to happen, and there is what happens. Events slip from the grasp; people, above all, evade. They set out as one thing, and become another.”
― Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“Perhaps he is one of those people who are able to go through life step by step, for whom what happens, happens, and that is that. For whom today is uncontaminated by yesterday.”
― Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“The Maker perfectly arrange events in every moment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The events of life are so unpredictable.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Networking is more than just exchanging business cards and attending trade shows! It's about building genuine relationships, sharing knowledge, and creating a solid support system.”
― Jason Langella

“Sorrow is full of unvoiced regrets.”
― Anthony T. Hincks