C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1: 8:00am
Speaker 1
“Competition is merely the absence of oppression.” --— Frédéric Bastiat
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. --Albert Einstein
I'm thankful for every moment. --Al Green
Speaker 2
To infinity, and beyond! --Toy Story
To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone, --Milan Kundera
Speaker 3
The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded --Frozen
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. --Alice Walker
The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description… You have to create it for yourself. --Hillary Clinton
Speaker 4
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done. --Thomas Jefferson
“All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.” --— Ludwig von Mises
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” --— Frédéric Bastiat
Speaker 5
“I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that one steps near and begins to speak." --— Rumi
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. --Ralph Nader
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat. --Dorothy Height
Speaker 6
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. --Gilbert K Chesterton
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. --John Wooden
“You can’t tell a young person over and over again that the only thing that makes them unique is the evil they’ve done. They will grow to resent you and then inflict even more evil because you’ve told them that the evil they’ve done is what gives their existence meaning.” --— Chloe S. Valdary
Speaker 7
Where words fail, music speaks. --Hans Christian Andersen
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. --Warren Buffett
It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it. --John Wooden
Round 2: 9:30am
Speaker 1
“[Governments] who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” --— C.S. Lewis
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. --Benjamin Franklin
"Pride is the crutch of the insecure.” --— Unknown
Speaker 2
"In all countries I know, more of their citizens have come to live in America than Americans have left to live in theirs.” --— Neil deGrasse Tyson
"There is no man that is free from all evil, nor any man that is so evil to be worth nothing.” --— David Castillo's last words, executed in Texas on Aug. 23, 1998
“Time moves differently in hospitals—both slower and faster. The minutes stand still, but the hours evaporate.” --— Tim Kreider
Speaker 3
The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted --Fred Rogers
Losing is not my enemy...fear of losing is my enemy --Rafael Nadal
There's always a chance, Doctor, as long as one can think --The Great Mouse Detective
Speaker 4
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. --Benjamin Franklin
Life is too short for long-term grudges. --Elon Musk
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speaker 5
Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people. --Kin Hubbard
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. --Malala Yousafzai
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. --Yoko Ono
Speaker 6
You will always be in my heart --Tarzan
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. --Aldous Huxley
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. --Albert Einstein
Speaker 7
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. --Thomas Jefferson
Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it --The Incredibles
“Even the things that seem still are still changing.” --— Ben Folds
Round 3: 10:45am
Speaker 1
"I was not a perfect risk, but I was a risk worth taking.” --— Dwight Gooden
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” --— Buddha, 583-463 B.C.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 2
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. --Andrew Carnegie
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. --Steve Jobs
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. --George Washington
Speaker 3
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.” --— J.K. Rowling
Love is putting someone else’s needs before yours --Frozen
“Why are you threatened by anyone different than you? --Tarzan
Speaker 4
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. --Benjamin Franklin
All it takes is faith and trust --Peter Pan
Do not look outside yourself for the leader. For we are the ones we have been waiting for. --Except from “To My Fellow Swimmers” by the Elders of the Hopi Nation
Speaker 5
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. --George Bernard Shaw
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. --Alexander Graham Bell
Let each man exercise the art he knows. --Aristophanes
Speaker 6
Nothing is more important than our friendship --Monsters, Inc.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. --Aeschylus
"I rant, therefore I am.” --— Dennis Miller
Speaker 7
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. --Benjamin Franklin
You gotta put your past behind you. Look, kid, bad things happen --The Lion King
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. --John Lennon