Sting Quotes

208 Sting quotes by 172 unique authors

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. — Phyllis McGinley
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man. — Alexander McQueen
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice. — H. L. Mencken
I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her… — Michelle Obama
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. — Francis Quarles
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting… — Sonia Sotomayor
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. — William Arthur Ward
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams
The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come… — Pablo Neruda
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known. — Dag Hammarskjold
I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She… — Sue Monk Kidd
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me. — Mark Twain
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then,… — William Shakespeare
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have… — Sue Monk Kidd
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking… — Jim Cymbala
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder
Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet… — Jodi Picoult
But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot. — Libba Bray
A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good… — J R Ward
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains. — Thomas Watson

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