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God always sends an angelto soften the sting of the devil. — Sarah Strohmeyer

Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood.
It hurt, though not as much as everything else. — Jodi Picoult

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die. — G.K. Chesterton

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them. — Tatum O'Neal

Caning was a way of life at the school, and the boy, Sting and myself, even at an early age, had our fair share of thrashings. — James Berryman

Liz had tried not to experience the doubly insulting sting of being excluded by a person she didn't care for. — Curtis Sittenfeld

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; ... — Marcel Proust

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories. — Sting

She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth. — Mary Alice Monroe

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know. — Sigmund Freud

Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat. — Donna Lynn Hope

Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell. — Lily King

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience. — George Horne

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true. — Sting

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game. — Sting

At night a candle's brighter than the sun — Sting

Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues. — Billy Crystal

Oh, go sting the BumbleBee. — Molly Harper

Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day. — Sting

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. — Sting

Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'. — James Berryman

We all have scars and ghosts of our own. Some drove us to the Scarlet Guard, and some were because of it. I know the sting of both. — Victoria Aveyard

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set. — Sting

The search for perfection is all good and well ...
But to look for heaven is to live here in hell. — Sting

Sometimes pain is the call of a wound that needs tending, and sometimes it is the sting of its healing. — Melissa Febos

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. — Sting

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too. — Sting

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole. — Sting

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way. — Sting

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. — Anna Brownell Jameson

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again. — George Bernard Shaw

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence. — Sting

The most exquisite joy is a sting to the heart, and love
love is a crisis of the soul. — Jed Rubenfeld

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire ... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying? — Vera Nazarian

Women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. — Sue Monk Kidd

There is nothing between us but raw emotion, and it's painful yet has the sweet sting of addiction. — Penelope Fletcher

Fear is the venom impact of predator sting,
causing prey not to be focus on the survival. — Toba Beta

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains. — Thomas Watson

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting. — John C. Hawkes

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer. — Cyril Connolly

Nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues. — Billy Crystal

With the taste of rum in my mouth and the sting of remembrance in my heart, I set my sights on the man who killed my family. — Kelsey Sutton

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

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome

[On Sting] He threw a sucker punch. There's the sucker who threw the punch. Him the the Bart Simpson hair doo. — Bobby Heenan

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting. — Henry Taylor

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do. — Sting

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart — Shannon Hale

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught. — Frances Hardinge

When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one. — James Berryman

He knew too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until a mere shell remained. — Katherine McIntyre

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. — Tacitus

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day. — Sting

The friendship of a Comyn lord is as the sweetness of a beehive: it bears a deadly sting! — Marion Zimmer Bradley

These are little things but sometimes it's the little things that sting the most. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being. — Sting

It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying. — Marian Keyes

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it. — Benjamin Franklin

My life is worth living said the Scorpion and showed his sting. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

People treat you the way they feel about themselves, I reminded myself, trying to ignore the sting of his words. — Fran Seen

Be the Music that Moves you
Float like a Butterfly Sting like Bee
Follow your DREAMS! — John Green

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. — Walter Savage Landor

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet. — Adelaide Anne Procter

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7) — Beth Moore

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin

God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. — Monique Truong

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure — Sting

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. — Sting

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. — Sting

be like a bee and put your life into the sting! — Joshua Heights

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see. — Sting

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. — Barbara Kingsolver

How was your ... eh ... trip?"
Artemis felt the sting of tears in his own eyes. "Um, eventful ... — Eoin Colfer

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. — Sting

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope. — Rene Char

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you. — Victoria Wood

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. — Sting

When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot. — Sting

I've been to every single book I know
To soothe the thoughts that plague me so. — Sting

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting. — Jean Cocteau

Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself? — Caroline Leavitt

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. — Maya Angelou

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors. — Dinah Maria Mulock

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? — C.S. Lewis

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun. — Sting

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. — St. Jerome

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time ... — William S. Burroughs

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent. — Elvis Costello

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. — Sting

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face. — Jeremy Taylor

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest. — Jack Dee