#redeeming

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

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

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

#holiness #holy #holy spirit #inconceivable #love

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

— Ellen Goodman

#cardboard #cardboard box #i #novel #recycled

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

#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else

Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind. ↗

— Francine Rivers

#faith #hosea #love #redeeming-love #romance

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gladstone #redeeming #single #william

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#redeeming #socially #weapons

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

#come #conditions #deeper #defeat #essentially

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

#features #few #fun #get #guys

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

#assumptions #characters #complex #everyone #i