Cynthia Lord Quotes
At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.

Quotes to Explore
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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I was raised on NBC television.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
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Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
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There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!
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There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
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The Little Boy’s Bed-Time See under Translations
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I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
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To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.