C. High School Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 10:00am
Speaker 1
I’d just as soon kiss a wookiee.
Yes We Can! --Barack Obama
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” --— Harry S. TrumanSpeaker 2
Dream in a pragmatic way. --Aldous Huxley
"I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.” --— Umbrella Man Louie Steven Witt
"I wish I had invented a way not to die.” --— Thomas EdisonSpeaker 3
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. --Albert Einstein
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. --General Montgomery
All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!Speaker 4
If you're gonna be the death of me, that's how I wanna go. --Bridgerton
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. --A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. --Abraham LincolnSpeaker 5
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. --Abraham Lincoln
How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning? --Fred Rogers
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. --John Quincy AdamsSpeaker 6
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. --Alice Walker (The Color Purple)
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
We make war that we may live in peace. --AristotleSpeaker 7
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
"The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free." --— David Mamet
There was never a good war, or a bad peace. --Benjamin Franklin
Round 2 - 11:45am
Speaker 1
When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. --Bayard Rustin
“Seeing the people our friends are attracted to often illuminates aspects of their personalities we don’t recognize.” --— Tim Kreider
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. --Malala YousafzaiSpeaker 2
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. --Erich Fromm
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. --Albert Einstein
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. --James BaldwinSpeaker 3
Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together. --Marilyn Monroe
"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” --— Attributed to John Adams
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. --Alexis de TocquevilleSpeaker 4
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. --Colin Powell
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. --John Quincy Adams
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. --Albert EinsteinSpeaker 5
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. --John Wooden
“Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.” --— Henry Hazlitt
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” --— Alfred HitchcockSpeaker 6
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. --JK Rowling
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am. --Imelda Marcos
Money lost, little lost. Honour lost, much lost. Pluck lost, all lost. --EW HornungSpeaker 7
“I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media.” --— Glenn Danzig
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin
Half a truth is often a great lie. --Benjamin Franklin
Round 3 - 1:30pm
Speaker 1
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. --Charlie Chaplin
The doors of wisdom are never shut. --Benjamin Franklin
Some people are worth melting forSpeaker 2
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." --— Marcus Aurelius
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
I have always drawn strength from being close to home. --Arthur AsheSpeaker 3
“There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law." --— Edward Snowden
“The plans differ; the planners are all alike.” --— Frederic Bastiat
A woman is like a teabag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. --Eleanor RooseveltSpeaker 4
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. --Lao-tze
Don’t ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.Speaker 5
The First Order wins by making people think they are alone. We’re not alone. Good people will fight if we lead them.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. --Henry Ford
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. --Albert CamusSpeaker 6
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. --Bruce Lee
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
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. --Albus DumbledoreSpeaker 7
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. --Alexander Graham Bell
"The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.” --— R. Lee Ermey
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.” --— Halon’s Razor
Elim 1
Speaker 1
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. --Daniel J Boorstin
So soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that 'freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,’ and they will define freedom out of existence.
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. --Aung San Suu KyiSpeaker 2
I am the captain now. --Captain Phillips
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. --Marie Curie
That's a pie-crust promise. Easily made, easily broken --Mary PoppinsSpeaker 3
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. --Albert Einstein
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. --Harry S Truman
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. --Anne FrankSpeaker 4
Necessity never made a good bargain. --Benjamin Franklin
This is how the sport of baseball moves: not at all, and then, all at once, with such terrifying speed the lines begin to bend, and then not at all. --Jon Bois
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. --John F. KennedySpeaker 5
“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.” --— James Donald
"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
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears. --Fred RogersSpeaker 6
Sometimes I feel like I'm on a rollercoaster, and I'm at the top of the world. --BoJack Horseman
Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. --David G. Allen
“Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.” --— Miyamoto MusashiSpeaker 7
In a dark place we find ourselves and a little more knowledge lights our way.
“We are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.” --— Steven Soderbergh
“There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.” --— Martin Luther King Jr.