Redeeming Quotes

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Happiness, Struggle

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli

Single, Defect, William

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
Joaquin Phoenix

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.
Marian Wright Edelman

Purpose, Weapons, Socially

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
Sissy Spacek

Family, Everything, Before

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
Callie Khouri

Love, Place, Start

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
Ellen Goodman

Work, Social, Value

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
Roland Allen

Love, Truth, Holy

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
Leslie Jamison

Pleasure, Privilege, Cliche

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
Sam Ervin

War, Greatest, Sacrifice

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