Mr Tolson Quotes

#1. It's up to you to make the conscious choices that bring about a better future. Find new methods to deal with old routines. You have to take charge of your life, to be accountable to yourself and responsible toward others.

Lynn C. Tolson

#2. He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. A civilization is always judged in its decline.

Melvin B. Tolson

#4. Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Walker

#5. Not every minor inconvenience leads to a major catastrophe.

Lynn C. Tolson

#6. You can replace negative self-talk with optimistic thoughts. It is possible to change a negative perspective on life into a positive life force if you keep a sense of proportion.

Lynn C. Tolson

#7. The power to change is already within you, ready to be discovered. Find new methods to deal with old routines. It is up to you to make the conscious choices that bring a better future.

Lynn C. Tolson

#8. Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

Lynn C. Tolson

#9. When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

Melvin B. Tolson

#10. Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

Melvin B. Tolson

#11. I can't help it, I'm an addict.'
'Don't corrupt the word 'addict,' Goddamnit,' Caro said. 'I'm fed up with everybody claiming they're addicted. You're just a ponderer, Sidda, that's all.

Rebecca Wells

#12. What you need and what you want aren't the same things,

Cherise Sinclair

#13. It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.

Lynn C. Tolson

#14. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.

Melvin B. Tolson

#15. The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Richard Koch

#16. I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.

Sue Tompkins

#17. The question is
Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

Melvin B. Tolson

#18. Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots

O. Henry

#19. Our wounds are not a measure of one individual's sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.

Lynn C. Tolson

#20. The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.

Phil Neville

#21. Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.

Edna O'Brien

#22. Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

Tom Ellis

#23. The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Nikki Giovanni