Quotes About Redeeming Qualities

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

David Bowie

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

Josh Billings

#5. Lillian is one of those disagreeable people who yet have some redeeming qualities, so that you can't write them off entirely - but you sure wish you could.

Charlaine Harris

#6. 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

#7. When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#8. I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

Pablo Schreiber

#9. 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

#10. The race was on; the souls of the racers were in it; over them bent the myriads.

Lew Wallace

#11. Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

Richard M. Nixon

#12. The most important part about bliss is understanding that tapping into your bliss is not about living in a world that is made up of rainbows, glitter, and unicorns that shit cupcakes.

Veronica N. Cuyugan

#13. When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.

Mary Szybist

#14. I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Liya Kebede

#15. There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

Lenny Abrahamson

#16. She studied his profile, the high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, strong, masculine nose, and full, sensuous mouth, fixing on the last, her insides quivering at the thought of those soft and knowing lips ...

Victoria Vane

#17. One thing the coupe never got? ROOF

Nicki Minaj

#18. Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Ray Mears

#19. Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#20. Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#21. Oh, to be reborn within the pages of a book.

Patti Smith