B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts
Rd 1 - 10:30
Speaker 1
Speaker One
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die." - Cersei Lannister
"The worst monsters are the ones we create." - Geralt of Rivia
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - Albus Dumbledore
Speaker 2
"Winter is coming." - House Stark
"Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same." - Geralt of Rivia
"The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Albus Dumbledore
Speaker 3
"The night is dark and full of terrors." - Melisandre
"Destiny helps people believe there's an order to this horseshit." - Geralt of Rivia
"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic." - Albus Dumbledore
Speaker 4
"A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep." - Tywin Lannister
"I'm not a hero. I'm a high-functioning alcoholic with a bad attitude." - Geralt of Rivia
"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus Dumbledore
Speaker 5
"Chaos is a ladder." - Petyr Baelish
"In every fairy tale, there is a kernel of truth." - Geralt of Rivia
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - Albus Dumbledore
Speaker 6
"I drink and I know things." - Tyrion Lannister
"You can't outrun destiny just because you're terrified of it." - Yennefer of Vengerberg
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." - Albus Dumbledore
Speaker 7
"The North remembers." - House Stark
"Chaos is the most dangerous thing in this world." - Geralt of Rivia
"We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy." - Albus Dumbledore
Rd 2 - 1:15
Speaker 1
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me." - Blaise Pascal
Speaker 2
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way." - Seamus Heaney
"The child is father of the man." - William Wordsworth
Speaker 3
"If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same… yours is the earth and everything that’s in it, " - Rudyard Kipling
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast." - Alexander Pope
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." - Charles Bukowski
Speaker 4
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." - Emily Dickinson
"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll
"Though she be but little, she is fierce." - William Shakespeare
Speaker 5
"Do not go gentle into that good night." - Dylan Thomas
"Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home." - Gary Snyder
Speaker 6
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
"The wound is the place where the light enters you." - Rumi
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi
Speaker 7
"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked." - Allen Ginsberg,
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." - T.S. Eliot
Finals - 2:45 (Draw at 2:30)
Speaker 1
"The function of freedom is to free someone else." - Toni Morrison
"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it." - Toni Morrison
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T. Washington
Speaker 2
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
"The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find your passion, figure out your purpose, and use that to help others." - Ta-Nehisi Coates
"I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines." - Audre Lorde
Speaker 3
"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right." - Aretha Franklin
"Our children need to see and know it’s possible to achieve their dreams and, more important, that they need to dream in the first place." - Lupita Nyong'o
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." - W.E.B. Du Bois
Speaker 4
"Your silence will not protect you." - Audre Lorde
"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal'. - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The world is changed by your example, not your opinion." - Paulo Coelho
Speaker 5
"I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them." - Diana Ross
"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down." - Toni Morrison
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style." - Maya Angelou
Speaker 6
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance." - Bell Hooks
"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up." - Rosa Parks
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against." – Malcolm X
Finals - 4:30 (Draw at 4:15)
Speaker 1
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
Speaker 2
"You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen." - Michelle Obama
"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard." - Malala Yousafzai
"The question isn’t whether you’re a leader if people are following you. The question is, are you a leader worth following?" - Sheryl Sandberg
Speaker 3
"You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." - Shirley Chisholm
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions." - Catherine Cook
"Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'" - Gloria Steinem
Speaker 4
"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages." - Michelle Obama
"Take criticism seriously, but not personally. " - Hillary Clinton
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter
Speaker 5
"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." - Rosa Parks
"I want every little girl who’s told she’s bossy to be told instead that she has leadership skills." - Sheryl Sandberg
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale
Speaker 6
"I work really hard to just focus on the joy of the work that gets to be done." - Ava DuVernay
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done." - Marge Piercy
Speaker 7
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker
"Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it." - C. Joy Bell
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done." - Lucille Ball