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Quotes About Sting

Sting can call out whoever he wants; he's a legend in this business.
~ Dolph Ziggler
This added a subtle sting to the retribution already darkening over him, for he who had won and wasted love so wantonly all his life now pined for it with a longing which nothing could appease, and pined in vain.
~ Louisa May Alcott
All heroes' news, like something from the songs, but there's nothing like others' successes to make your own failures sting the worse.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
~ Mark Twain
He had robbed the body of its taint, the world's taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire.
~ E.M. Forster
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
~ Edward Abbey
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death.
~ Edward Abbey
Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.
~ Eugene Kennedy
A mediocre review or careless slight can no longer harm him, but heartbreak, real true heartbreak, can pierce his thin hide and bring out the same shade of blood as ever. How can so many things become a bore by middle age—philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods—but heartbreak keeps its sting? Perhaps because he finds fresh sources for
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Ling, my soul you sting, in pain I sing, my coffin you bring.
~ Samit Basu
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
~ Samuel Johnson
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
~ Edward Young
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
~ Archibald MacLeish
He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
~ William S. Burroughs
Beauty is that Medusa's head Which men go armed to seek and sever. It is most deadly when most dead. And dead will stare and sting forever. —Archibald MacLeish, "Beauty
~ Scott Westerfeld
The air bit into your lungs because it was filled with poisonous gas escaping from the refineries. That sting in the air which made breathing so hard and unpleasant and choked your throat constantly meant that people were making money- much money.
~ B. Traven
I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
~ Sting
If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.
~ Ryan Cabrera
But he who would provoke me should remember That those who rifle wasps' nests will be stung!
~ Aristophanes
If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
O Fame! A bubble on life's wave, 'Tis tossed about, a worthless thing; The bubble breaks--'tis lost for aye, But leaves on heart a poignant sting.... You cut your name on granit block; As ages come and pass away, Disintegrated is the stone, For all in nature must decay.
~ barton ardelia cotton ii
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
~ Nancy Gibbs
It is far too easy for Protestants to take the sting from Jesus' words by thinking what Jesus was really saying was not that his followers had to do more, but that they were to trust in the righteousness of Christ while the scribes and Pharisees were trusting in themselves. Or to say the Pharisees were externally righteous only. For this view, "surpasses" is really about kind of righteousness and not degree.
~ Scot McKnight