Redeeming Qualities Quotes

• There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

  Josh Billings

  Quality, Ugly, Enough

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• Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That’s what makes us human.

  Matt Bomer

  People, Shadow, Quality

  "White Collar Premiere Week: Matt Bomer & Tim DeKay Interviews". hollywoodthewriteway.com. October 24, 2009.

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• 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

  Character, Thinking, Quality

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• The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

  Jon Gordon

  Thinking, Cds, Quality

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• I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheist, Religion, President

  "Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1". Book by John F. Nash (p. 11), February 14, 2008.

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• You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Hate, Acceptance, Worst Enemy

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

  Trevor Noah

  Opportunity, Quality, Trump

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.

  Paula Sharp

  Quality, Strange, Conformity

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• Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

  David Boreanaz

  Believe, Character, Quality

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 23, 2013.

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• All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Strong, Sex

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• Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Quality, Fool, Redeeming

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• I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Quality, Sincere

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.107, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Quality, And Love, Persons

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

  John Oliver

  Feelings, Quality, Artistic

  "The (Not So Fine) Fine Art of The Pun". Interview with Benjamin Phelan, www.gq.com. August 5, 2011.

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• Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

  Peter Saville

  Eye, Quality, Different

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• When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere ... we must disappear.

  Bhai Sahib Singh

  Spiritual, Fire, Water

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• I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Dog, Hate

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• It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love Is, Evil, Quality

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