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Quotes About Sting

women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
She liked to tell everyone that women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
The sting shot pain all the way to my elbow, causing me to marvel at how much punishment a minuscule creature can inflict. I'm prideful enough to say I didn't complain. After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it. I just dived back into the riptide of saving bees.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.
~ Susan Wiggs
The San Francisco restaurant chosen for the FBI's first sting in the college admissions investigation that went by the name "Operation Sis-Boom-Bah" was renowned for its exceptional wines (including a 2001 Pomerol Bordeaux), and the fact that it had just netted Food & Wine's highest honor, its Grand Award.
~ Josie Brown
Memories always sting, don't they? The good ones most of all.
~ Harlan Coben
She's a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you've been stung and you don't know where it came from.
~ Helen Fielding
I think Sting would be denying his fans a great moment if Sting did not step into WWE competition at least once. I have always been a huge admirer of what Sting brings to the table and his relationship with his audience, and I would be dramatically disappointed if Sting does not wrestle a WWE match.
~ Paul Heyman
Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there'll be no butter in hell!
~ Stella Gibbons
Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi' a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there 'll be no butter in hell!
~ Stella Gibbons
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
~ Tacitus
Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.
~ Bill Bryson
Oh my God." She waited for the chastising sting of the mark, which acted like a behavioral-modification dog collar. When the burn didn't come after taking the Lord's name in vain, she found some of the fog in her brain lifting.
~ Sylvia Day
Float like a corpse sting like a lemon.
~ Fred Van Lente
Honey is sweet but bees sting.
~ French proverb
The taste of blood and that annoying sting of a bitten tongue. Once man got the taste of blood there was no going back, like a serpent circling itself eating its own tail."
~ Brandon Garic Notch
These memories were beautiful, and they stung like nettles.
~ Henry Miller
The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I've been dipped in. And I'm yelling out, 'Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!' And the next thing is paralysis.
~ Diana Nyad
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?
~ J. K. Rowling
I dinna trust that Q, that's a letter than has it in for a man. That's a letter with a sting, that one!
~ Terry Pratchett
My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there.
~ Trudie Styler
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
~ Sting
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
~ Sting