A. College Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 1:30pm
Speaker 1
"If you sweep a conflict under the rug, eventually you're going to trip on it.” --— Dr. Marilyn Sorensen
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. --Antoine de SaintExupery (The Little Prince)
"Impossible is nothing." --— Elna Baker
Speaker 2
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” --— James Allen
"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” --— Alexander Hamilton
"I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want." --— Stanley Kubrick
Speaker 3
"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.” --— Charles Bukowski
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. --Victor Hugo
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 4
Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so. --Michael Leunig
All men must serve. --Game of Thrones
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. --Fred Rogers
Speaker 5
“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” --— Murray Rothbard
Don’t ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone. --Nancy Reagan
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. --Niccolo Machiavelli
Speaker 6
You come at the king, you best not miss. --The Wire
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. --Nelson Mandela
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. --Warren Buffett
Speaker 7
Never give an order that can't be obeyed. --General Douglas MacArthur
“Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.” --— Miyamoto Musashi
All men by nature desire knowledge. --Aristotle
Round 2 - 3:05pm
Speaker 1
Reform is just another name for responsibility. --Abhijit Naskar
We may have our differences, but nothing's more important than family --Coco
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 2
“Cinema lies, sport doesn’t.” --— Jean-Luc Goddard.
“If you can't convince them, scare them.” --— the government
It is not strange… to mistake change for progress --Millard Fillmore
Speaker 3
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. --Anton Chekhov
All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. --Alice Walker
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Speaker 4
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. --Aeschylus
Independence is happiness. --Susan B. Anthony
I'm not a regular mom. I'm a cool mom. --Mean Girls
Speaker 5
Adventure is out there --Up
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. --Anwar Sadat
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. --Aldous Huxley
Speaker 6
"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” --— Doug Larson
Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. --Dennis Covington
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --Aristotle
Speaker 7
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. --Alexander Hamilton
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. --Robert Kennedy
“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.” --— Henry Hazlitt
Round 3 - 4:15pm
Speaker 1
A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early --The Princess Diaries
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” --— Dr. Seuss
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it." --— George Orwell, 1984
Speaker 2
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. --John F. Kennedy
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. --Alexis de Tocqueville
“The executive power is properly the government; the laws are a dead letter until an administration begins to carry them into execution.” --— John Adams
Speaker 3
"Words [...] are used to serve the speaker's or writer's agenda rather than to create understanding. Political jargon is abused until it loses all value, either to describe, praise, or insult.” --— Jeff Deist
The First Order wins by making people think they are alone. We’re not alone. Good people will fight if we lead them. --Poe Dameron, The Rise of Skywalker
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. --Abigail Van Buren
Speaker 4
You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. --Eldridge Cleaver
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. --Malcolm X
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” --— Ronald Reagan
Speaker 5
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him" --— James Allen
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. --Winston Churchill
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. --Shakespeare
Speaker 6
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. --B. B. King
Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. --Robert Brault
Speaker 7
Things don't have to change the world to be important. --Steve Jobs
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. --Miguel de Cervantes
Finals - 6:10pm
Speaker 1
"You shouldn't have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to die.” --— Body composter Tim Evans
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” --— Oscar Wilde
Life's a little bit messy. We all make mistakes. No matter what type of animal you are, change starts with you --Zootopia
Speaker 2
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. --Dee Dee Myers
“Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.” --— Gustave de Molinari
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. --Arthur Ashe
Speaker 3
"I wish I had invented a way not to die.” --— Thomas Edison
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. --Albert Einstein
They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it. --Ocean Vuong (On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous)
Speaker 4
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. --Alan Rickman
I trust myself. You need that to survive. --Yoko Ono
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. --Ferdinand Foch
Speaker 5
She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within --Beauty and the Beast
“As government grows, liberty dies." --— Philipp Bagus
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest. --Yoko Ono
Speaker 6
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie
“Because taxation is backed up with the threat of force, it is theft, plain and simple.” --— Adam Kokesh
Real strength has to do with helping others. --Fred Rogers
Speaker 7
“One man’s inflexibility is another man’s adherence to principle. Whether intransigence is virtue or vice often depends on principle or stands on ceremony.” --— Jeff Deist
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. --Alex Trebek
You may delay, but time will not. --Benjamin Franklin