Elizabeth Kenny Quotes

#1. Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.

Perry Stone

#2. If someone angers you, they control you.

Elizabeth Kenny

#3. I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

Elizabeth Kenny

#4. At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Elizabeth Kenny

#5. The Buddha said, 'Gripped by fear, men go to the sacred mountains and sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines.' I am not afraid of death, my lady. I need no god to comfort me in my fear.

Conn Iggulden

#6. The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

Elizabeth Kenny

#7. I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.

Elizabeth Kenny

#8. I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

Elizabeth Kenny

#9. Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Elizabeth Kenny

#10. Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

Elizabeth Kenny

#11. It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

Elizabeth Kenny

#12. A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

Elizabeth Kenny

#13. The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

Malachy McCourt

#14. As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

#15. I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Elizabeth Kenny

#16. Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically ...

Elizabeth Kenny

#17. I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

Elizabeth Kenny

#18. His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Elizabeth Kenny

#19. It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Elizabeth Kenny

#20. He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

#21. There's the most extraordinary, unheard of poetry buried in America, but none of the conventional means known to culture can even begin to extract it...the agony is too deep, the disorder too big for art enterprises undertaken in the old way.

Saul Bellow

#22. My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

Elizabeth Kenny

#23. Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Elizabeth Kenny

#24. In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Elizabeth Kenny

#25. I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

Elizabeth Kenny

#26. Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

Earl Campbell

#27. I liked being in the spotlight.

Scott Caan