B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 3

  1. Speaker 1


    Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
    True love means what’s mine is yours. --African Proverb
    Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest. --Chinese Proverb

  2. Speaker 2


    He who hesitates is lost.
    Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today
    It’s easy to be wise after the event

  3. Speaker 3


    Think thrice before you act. --Chinese Proverb
    When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the branches.
    Least said, soonest mended.

  4. Speaker 4


    Silence is half consent.
    All that glitters is not gold.
    A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood --Chinese Proverb

  5. Speaker 5


    Better safe than sorry
    Use it or lose it.
    Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth. --Irish proverb

  6. Speaker 6


    A penny saved is a penny earned.
    Clothes do not make a man.
    Love me, love my dog.

  7. Speaker 7


    Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
    With truth on your side, you can go anywhere; without truth, you can't take a tiny step. --Chinese Proverb
    There is truth in wine.

Round 1

  1. Speaker 1


    Computer
    Grandmother
    Tongue

  2. Speaker 2


    Candy
    Garage
    Grapes

  3. Speaker 3


    Sister
    Mango
    Brass

  4. Speaker 4


    Arrow
    Giraffe
    London

  5. Speaker 5


    Lips
    Father
    Shoes

  6. Speaker 6


    Bitterness
    Crest
    Jaw

  7. Speaker 7


    Cat
    Umbrella
    Lemon

Round 2

  1. Speaker 1


    hearsay
    motivation
    Talent

  2. Speaker 2


    Insanity
    Strength
    Generation

  3. Speaker 3


    Childhood
    Justice
    stupidity

  4. Speaker 4


    Dream
    Horror
    Wit

  5. Speaker 5


    Deceit
    submission
    Advantage

  6. Speaker 6


    Surprise
    Sacrifice
    Lie

  7. Speaker 7


    Confusion
    Appetite
    Divorce

Elim 1

  1. Speaker 1


    The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. --Albert Einstein
    The less you talk, the more you're listened to. --Abigail Van Buren
    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. --Albert Einstein

  2. Speaker 2


    You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. --Rosalynn Carter
    "No feeling is final.” --— Rainer Maria Rilke
    "Luck is the residue of design.” --— Branch Rickey

  3. Speaker 3


    I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked. --Allen Ginsberg,
    Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
    It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  4. Speaker 4


    The only journey is the one within.
    "Taste is made up of a thousand distastes.” --— Paul Valéry
    Honest people don't hide their deeds. --Emily Bronte

  5. Speaker 5


    Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. --Aristotle
    If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed. --David Hackworth
    Everything is possible. Even the impossible --Mary Poppins Returns

  6. Speaker 6


    The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
    Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
    “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it." --— George Orwell, 1984

  7. Speaker 7


    All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
    "We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” --— Isaac Newton
    Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. --Charles Swindoll

Elim 2

  1. Speaker 1


    Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. --Anne Frank
    Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. --Aristophanes
    “Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” --— Glennon Doyle, Untamed

  2. Speaker 2


    That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. --Aldous Huxley
    The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
    "You snooze, you lose. I have snost and lost.” --— Mike Doughty

  3. Speaker 3


    It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. --Aldous Huxley
    Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
    You want something done, you've got to do it yourself

  4. Speaker 4


    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
    It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business. --Dolley Madison
    If men were angels, no government would be necessary. --James Madison

  5. Speaker 5


    Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. --David Ben-Gurion
    "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.” --— Charles Bukowski
    Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  6. Speaker 6


    Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --Albert Einstein
    People only see what they are prepared to see. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. --Alice Walker

  7. Speaker 7


    My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. --Abraham Lincoln
    Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
    Whatever choice you make, let it come from your heart ---Queen Clarisse Renaldi