C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:00am

  1. Speaker 1


    If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. --Seamus Heaney
    "If you're going to be a tourist, be a respectful one." --— Ben Folds
    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

  2. Speaker 2


    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
    "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.” --— Murphy's Law
    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

  3. Speaker 3


    Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. --Gary Snyder
    Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. --Albus Dumbledore
    You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. --Shirley Chisholm

  4. Speaker 4


    Do not go gentle into that good night. --Dylan Thomas
    An activist is one who is actively involved in creating a community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. --Jasmine Guy
    The wound is the place where the light enters you. --Rumi

  5. Speaker 5


    A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. --Tywin Lannister
    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
    I drink and I know things. --Tyrion Lannister

  6. Speaker 6


    You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. --Michelle Obama
    Chaos is a ladder. --Petyr Baelish
    The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. --W.E.B. Du Bois

  7. Speaker 7


    The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. --Mahatma Gandhi
    I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. --Rosa Parks
    If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions. --Catherine Cook

Round 2 - 11:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    Destiny helps people believe there's an order to this horseshit. --Geralt of Rivia
    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
    To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  2. Speaker 2


    We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. --Albus Dumbledore
    It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. --Albus Dumbledore
    Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. --Langston Hughes

  3. Speaker 3


    "All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education." --— Frédéric Bastiat
    It is never too late to be what you might have been. --George Eliot
    What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. --Charles Bukowski

  4. Speaker 4


    It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. --Albus Dumbledore
    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 saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked. --Allen Ginsberg,

  5. Speaker 5


    Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. --Dale Turner
    Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. --Geralt of Rivia
    "The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret." --— W Nido Qubein

  6. Speaker 6


    Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children. --Hillary Clinton
    The child is father of the man. --William Wordsworth
    I want every little girl who’s told she’s bossy to be told instead that she has leadership skills. --Sheryl Sandberg

  7. Speaker 7


    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
    It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. --Lewis Carroll
    Your silence will not protect you. --Audre Lorde

Round 3 - 1:15pm

  1. 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
    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
    The night is dark and full of terrors. --Melisandre

  2. Speaker 2


    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 attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. --Florence Nightingale
    I'm not a hero. I'm a high-functioning alcoholic with a bad attitude. --Geralt of Rivia

  3. Speaker 3


    The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. --Rosa Parks
    Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. --Emily Dickinson
    You can't outrun destiny just because you're terrified of it. --Yennefer of Vengerberg

  4. Speaker 4


    The function of freedom is to free someone else. --Toni Morrison
    This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. --T.S. Eliot
    The best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. --Albus Dumbledore

  5. Speaker 5


    Though she be but little, she is fierce. --William Shakespeare
    I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. --Lucille Ball
    We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right. --Aretha Franklin

  6. Speaker 6


    What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
    It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. --Albus Dumbledore
    I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. --Malcolm X

  7. Speaker 7


    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
    The worst monsters are the ones we create. --Geralt of Rivia
    A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. --Marge Piercy