Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other me...n are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Simone Clouseau: Jacques would make a wonderful father. He has many redeeming qualities, you know. Sir Charles: Name one. .../>Simone Clouseau: Oh, he's kind, loyal, faithful, obedient. Sir Charles: You're either married to a boy scout or a dachshund.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat ... the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but t...he deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The purifying, healing influence of literature, the dissipating of passions by knowledge and the written word, literature as the p...ath to understanding, forgiveness and love, the redeeming might of the word, the literary spirit as the noblest manifestation of the spirit of man, the writer as perfected type, as saint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Come unto me," [Krokowski] was saying, though not in those words, "come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy-laden".... He spo...ke of secret suffering, of shame and sorrow, of the redeeming power of the analytic. He advocated the bringing of light into the unconscious mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hand...s and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now you rise, a city from the sea,... born long before Alexandria was, straightway from God you have come into your redeeming skin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some rede...eming traits even to the eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »