B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 3
Speaker 1
There's no place like home.
A fish and bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. --African Proverb
Among the blind, one-eyed man is king.Speaker 2
It is easy to open a store - the hard part is keeping it open. --Chinese Proverb
Without standards, no boundaries are set. --Chinese Proverb
No medicine exists that can cure hatred. --African ProverbSpeaker 3
What goes around comes around
All things change, and we change with them. --Chinese Proverb
Better late than never.Speaker 4
Laughter is the best medicine
One should fight fire with fire.
A friend in need is a friend indeedSpeaker 5
Better little than too little. --Cameroonian proverb
Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great. --Chinese Proverb
No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun. --Chinese ProverbSpeaker 6
The pen is mightier than the sword
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. --Chinese Proverb
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?Speaker 7
Fine feathers make fine birds.
A book is a pocket garden. --Chinese Proverb
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Elim 1
Speaker 1
Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. --Eleanor Roosevelt
I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them. --George H.W. Bush
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. --Alan RickmanSpeaker 2
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
I don't want to survive. I want to live
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. --Marco RubioSpeaker 3
"You can't put paradise in a tour book. You have to discover it." --— Elna Baker
Chaos is a ladder. --Petyr Baelish
I'm not a hero. I'm a high-functioning alcoholic with a bad attitude. --Geralt of RiviaSpeaker 4
Sometimes our strengths lie beneath the surface --Moana
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul
Great lives never go out; they go on. --Benjamin HarrisonSpeaker 5
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” --— William J. H. Boetcker
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. --Aeschylus
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. --Fred RogersSpeaker 6
“When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?” --— Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. --Albus Dumbledore
I just can't wait for the future. --Amanda SeyfriedSpeaker 7
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. --Aldous Huxley
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years --Abraham Lincoln
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” --— Thomas Sowell
Elim 2
Speaker 1
“I'd rather be No.2 forever than No. 1 for a while.” --— Paul Smith
"All men dream: but not equally.” --— T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. --Ella Wheeler WilcoxSpeaker 2
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
“Every time I judge someone else, I reveal an unhealed part of myself.” --— Anonymous
Courage is grace under pressure. --Ernest HemingwaySpeaker 3
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish. --Anna Kendrick
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. --AristotleSpeaker 4
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. --Ferdinand Foch
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. --Harriet Tubman
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. --Aldous HuxleySpeaker 5
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. --Aldous Huxley
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. --Marcus AureliusSpeaker 6
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. --Benjamin Franklin
All men must serve. --Game of Thrones
No legacy is so rich as honesty.”Speaker 7
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. --Benjamin Franklin
We didn’t set out to be superheroes. But sometimes life doesn’t go the way you planned --Big Hero 6
“And in the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” --— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Round 2
Speaker 1
Fascination
Crime
AdventureSpeaker 2
integrity
Union
RealitySpeaker 3
Sanity
Evil
UnrealitySpeaker 4
Sorrow
Hatred
SolitudeSpeaker 5
Elegance
jealousy
PrideSpeaker 6
Inflation
Weakness
EducationSpeaker 7
Friendship
Uncertainty
grief
Round 1
Speaker 1
Drum
Cafe
JumperSpeaker 2
Jewelry
Spoon
BlenderSpeaker 3
Bear
Tablet
MotherSpeaker 4
Belt
Radio
PianoSpeaker 5
Knife
Bones
SharkSpeaker 6
Nurse
Museum
ShoulderSpeaker 7
Pasta
Pancake
Beans