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Quotes About Sting

Look, I don't want you to do this because of what I said. I need you to know that I care." I would have laughed at the irony of my next words if they didn't sting as I spoke them. "But not enough, Collin. Not enough.
~ Laura Campbell
There is no Scorpion like a guilty mind— No sting so terrible as he must bear Whose conscience still reproves.
~ Author Unknown
The epigram is a scorpion; as the sting of the scorpion lieth in the tail, the force of the epigram is in its conclusion.
~ Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
~ Thomas Watson
As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).
~ Thomas Watson
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
Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.
~ lazarus emma
The kitchen island, like the one in the sting house, was absolutely enormous, a second kitchen unto itself. There was no room for one like that in Eve's kitchen and she felt a pang of island envy.
~ Lee Goldberg
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
~ Dante Alighieri
Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from the western gaze. The Soviet bloc was a genuine mystery. Such was the dehumanisation of the Soviets that Sting could wonder in song if 'the Russians love their children too.'
~ Mark Fisher
In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
~ Victoria Wood
There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
~ Feist
Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.
~ Shania Twain
I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.
~ Jarvis Cocker
Shout out to Sting: that's the G.O.A.T. right there. The goat. Greatest of all time.
~ Juice Wrld
I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
~ Afrojack
Powerbombing someone on the apron or into the turnbuckle, those are not moves Sting and I grew up with.
~ Scott Hall
I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
~ John C. Hawkes
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.
~ Robert Guillaume
If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.
~ Steven Adler
When we do reggae, it's normally a one-chord or a two-chord, or whatever it is. With Sting, there'll be chord changes, key changes.
~ Shaggy
My best moment with Sting was when they made a little movie, this kind of biopic of him. I go to be in it and hit him with a chair.
~ Lance Archer
I feel like anybody would be heartbroken to see how quickly or easily you are replaced; of course that's going to sting.
~ Chrishell Stause
I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of tides more than I loved the fury of surf. Something in me was congruent with this land, something affirmed when I witnessed the startled, piping rush of shrimp or the flash of starlight on the scales of mullet. I could feel myself relax and change whenever I returned to the lowcountry and saw the vast green expanses of marsh, feminine as lace, delicate as calligraphy. The lowcountry had its own special ache and sting.
~ Pat Conroy