Jackie Pullinger Quotes

#1. I banked my life on a miracle.

Jackie Pullinger

#2. Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Minna Antrim

#3. I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.

Jeff Koons

#4. The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

Jackie Pullinger

#5. We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

Jackie Pullinger

#6. For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I still can't believe the games of dreams is going to take place in Korea.

Kim Yuna

#7. Find your path in life and travel on it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn't divorce fun?

Katherine Applegate

#9. People say to me. 'What about the rich?' They need Jesus too.' Well, that's fine if you're called to them, but we're called to the poor. The rich can look after themselves.

Jackie Pullinger

#10. The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

Assata Shakur

#11. The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

Jackie Pullinger

#12. He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#13. I went up to a man and said 'Jesus loves you' but I realised that it didn't mean anything unless I did it.

Jackie Pullinger

#14. The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

Jackie Pullinger

#15. But by ending the war now, before it truly begins, the Death Star will save more lives than it took.

Claudia Gray

#16. Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Christa McAuliffe

#17. God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

Jackie Pullinger

#18. Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

Anandamayi Ma

#19. After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Orhan Pamuk