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For instance: scorpions, vipers, and yellow jackets in paradise? How to accept gracefully the part of GOD that stings! — Alice Walker

Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message. — Paula Stokes

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned. — Elena Ferrante

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. — H.L. Mencken

Death stings so harshly, no escape and hiding zone from it. — Euginia Herlihy

Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. — William Cowper

The long eyelids beat and lift: a burning needleprick stings and quivers in the velvet iris. — James Joyce

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings. — William Shakespeare

It stings to clean a wound, to poke it and prod it until certain that any contagions have been excised, but we want to heal. — Bromleigh McCleneghan

The memory stings
and I hate that, I hate how all the good memories have turned into things that hurt
but I need the pain. — Claudia Gray

Sam handed back the sword. "When I try to swat a bug, it always flies away. All I do is slap my arm. It stings." That made Jon laugh. — George R R Martin

Mortal beauty stings while it delights. — Christian Nestell Bovee

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. — Lucretius

I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does. — J.D. Salinger

I can't stop once I've started ... it stings! — Jake Anderson

Bee stings are very educational — Garth Nix

Listen you little turd, don't tell me my business. It's not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled.
"But Green ... Yikes, that stings! — Judy Byington

Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it's really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic. — James Jean-Pierre

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?' He — Diana Gabaldon

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. — George Herbert

The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Lost love, precious," Grams replied, turning her head to look out the side window. "Stings like a wasp bite that never fades. — Kristen Ashley

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. — William Gifford

Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Maybe all the stings inside him broke. — John Green

When the dog bites, when the bee stings ... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit. — Sophie Kinsella

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money — Livy

Ariel gets bad when she's scared. That's when she stings; that's what stings, scared things cornered. — Leah Bobet

The Sufi saying has it: God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings! — Idries Shah

Are you okay?" Travis asked.
"My hand stings."
He smiled. "That was bad ass, Pidge. I'm impressed. — Jamie McGuire

It stings every now and then, but I've moved on. Not only that, but I've moved on without suppressing shit and being in denial. — Cara Dee

Talk to the Lord, Julianne. Even if you're mad as hornets. If you keep it all bottled up, you'll only end up with a belly full of bee stings. — Jocelyn Green

Injustice is relativelyl easy to bear; what stings is justice. — H.L. Mencken

The gristle of the underneath stings in the air of responsibility. — Mark Ryan

A gumble bee is half gum ball, half bumble bee, and it's so chewy it stings. Makes me want to be a better lover and tractor salesman. — Jarod Kintz

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? — John Tillotson

Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings. — John Donne

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever. — Barbara Park

Juno MacGuff: Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment. — Diablo Cody

I want out of this place.
With no reminders.
It stings -
sulphur tears
in cinnamon rain. — Emma Cameron

Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.'
'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings. — Jonathan Carroll

Love not only stings when you lose it, when it's ripped away from you. When it first bites, it can sting just as deeply. — Cat Porter

I have the confidence of a killer whale, but being shot down by these losers stings. — Victoria Scott

One truth stings far less than a thousand lies. — Brittainy C. Cherry

How awful is that hour when con, science stings. — James Gates Percival

Frau Elena, does a bee know it's going to die if it stings somebody? — Anthony Doerr

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals. — Timothy Keller

The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs; A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings! — Emily Dickinson

Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you, for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
Aaron Hill — Michael Tappenden

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge. — Janny Wurts

Pride ruined the angels,
Their shame them restores;
And the joy that is sweetest
Lurks in stings of remorse. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

the fluffy golden squirrels turn out to be carnivorous and attack in packs, and the butterfly stings bring agony if not death. But — Suzanne Collins