Burnishes Quotes

#1. I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

Ursula Burns

#2. I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Gerrit Smith

#3. It's interesting, isn't it, to watch this character attempting to reconstruct herself, quite literally, in the midst of this chaos?

Liz Kay

#4. warriors - be they human, demoness, siren, changeling or any brave creature from the Lore - knew to pray for it as they died. Thus the Valkyrie were born.

Kresley Cole

#5. Most of the people I have really cared about in this world, I have elected to the position. I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.

Thomas Berger

#6. The furnishings she'd chosen reminded him of the woman who lived here. Nothing to admire, and yet he wished to be here. To stay here and be surrounded by rooms that settled him. He was at ease, and the longer he stayed, the more he found to like.

Carolyn Jewel

#7. As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

Orson Scott Card

#8. Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Louise Erdrich

#9. The heaviest heart eventually heals to heavenly heights. Never give up.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#10. A gentleman can't let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed."
"But you are not a gentleman," she pointed out. "You are the greatest scoundrel in all the land."
He tilted his head to consider that. "All right. You take the chair.

Christina Brooke

#11. Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Herman Melville

#12. Me under her, behind her. Driving up into her. What will she do? Say? How does she sound when she comes?

Karen Marie Moning

#13. There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

Fred Rogers