B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 3

  1. 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.

  2. 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 Proverb

  3. Speaker 3


    What goes around comes around
    All things change, and we change with them. --Chinese Proverb
    Better late than never.

  4. Speaker 4


    Laughter is the best medicine
    One should fight fire with fire.
    A friend in need is a friend indeed

  5. Speaker 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 Proverb

  6. Speaker 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?

  7. Speaker 7


    Fine feathers make fine birds.
    A book is a pocket garden. --Chinese Proverb
    Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Elim 1

  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 Rickman

  2. Speaker 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 Rubio

  3. Speaker 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 Rivia

  4. Speaker 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 Harrison

  5. Speaker 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 Rogers

  6. Speaker 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 Seyfried

  7. Speaker 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

  1. 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 Wilcox

  2. Speaker 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 Hemingway

  3. Speaker 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. --Aristotle

  4. Speaker 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 Huxley

  5. Speaker 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 Aurelius

  6. Speaker 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.”

  7. 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

  1. Speaker 1


    Fascination
    Crime
    Adventure

  2. Speaker 2


    integrity
    Union
    Reality

  3. Speaker 3


    Sanity
    Evil
    Unreality

  4. Speaker 4


    Sorrow
    Hatred
    Solitude

  5. Speaker 5


    Elegance
    jealousy
    Pride

  6. Speaker 6


    Inflation
    Weakness
    Education

  7. Speaker 7


    Friendship
    Uncertainty
    grief

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Drum
    Cafe
    Jumper

  2. Speaker 2


    Jewelry
    Spoon
    Blender

  3. Speaker 3


    Bear
    Tablet
    Mother

  4. Speaker 4


    Belt
    Radio
    Piano

  5. Speaker 5


    Knife
    Bones
    Shark

  6. Speaker 6


    Nurse
    Museum
    Shoulder

  7. Speaker 7


    Pasta
    Pancake
    Beans