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South St Paul Hilke Invitational
Sample Impromptu Topics Imagination “Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” Charles F. Kettering “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” George Bernard Shaw ************************************************************************ Aesop “It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.” Aesop “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop ************************************************************************ Mark Twain “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” Mark Twain “The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” Mark Twain ************************************************************************ Compassion “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” - The Dalai Lama (1935 - ) “Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.” - Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) ************************************************************************Knowledge “If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.” - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965) “When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.” - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) ************************************************************************ Peace “Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” - Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677) “You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” - Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) ************************************************************************ Revenge Revenge is a dish best served cold. French Proverb He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves. Chinese Proverb ************************************************************************ Work I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost ************************************************************************Pets "We think we are playing with the cat, but how do we know that the cat isn't playing with us?" Montaigne The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. Mark Twain ************************************************************************ Peanuts comic strip quotes 1. Charlie Brown: “In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” 2. Linus: I don’t like to face problems head on. I think the best way to solve problems is to avoid them.” 3. Lucy: Our generation has been given the works. All of the world’s problems are being shoved at us. Linus: What do you think we should do? Lucy: Stick the next generation! ************************************************************************ Calvin and Hobbes comic strip quotes 1. Calvin: “There’s an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is.” 2. Calvin: “I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…Procrastinating and rationalizing.” 3. Calvin: “I’ve got plenty of common sense…I just choose to ignore it. ************************************************************************ Helen Keller 1. “We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world” 2. “Nothing endures but change.” ************************************************************************Mahatma Gandhi (attributed) 1. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ************************************************************************ Norwegian Proverb 1. "Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high." Chinese Proverb 2. “A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” ************************************************************************ Dr. Seuss QUOTES Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Dr. Seuss ************************************************************************ Dumbledore QUOTES There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows ************************************************************************Miguel de Cervantes’ QUOTES Facts are the enemy of truth. Miguel de Cervantes, Man of La Mancha Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. Miguel de Cervantes ************************************************************************ “Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird ************************************************************************ “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” ― Khaled Hosseini “One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner ************************************************************************ “Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.” ― Toni Morrison, Beloved “What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?” ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon ************************************************************************“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.” Pete Seeger “Judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” --Simón Bolívar ************************************************************************ “You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.” --Joan Baez “I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.” Bruce Springsteen ************************************************************************ “Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.” Benito Juarez SpeechWire Tournament Services - Copyright 2004-2025 Ben Stewart. All Rights Reserved. Terms of use - Privacy and Security Policy
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