Sting Quotes

“THE WEATHER OF LOVE


Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast
In the form of a flower.
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
This is how love is,
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely.

Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“I know, I know. But I can always kill him later. This way, at least we get to humiliate him first.”
Finn eyed me. “Sometimes I think you’re even more devious, twisted, and vicious than I am.”
I grinned. “You only wish you could be as ruthless as me.”
“Absolutely.”
― Jennifer Estep, Deadly Sting

“I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.”
― Si Robertson

“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

“If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“How does Sting know she doesn’t have to turn on the red light? I bet under different circumstances she’d love not to put on the red light, but she’s got bills to pay. If he’s telling her she doesn’t have to turn on the red light, he needs to offer an alternative. I’d appreciate Sting’s suggestion more if he followed, “You don’t have to sell your body to the night,” with “because I found you a stable nine-to-five that comes with benefits, a dental plan, and a matching 401K.”
― Steven Barker, Now for the Disappointing Part: A Pseudo-Adult?s Decade of Short-Term Jobs, Long-Term Relationships, and Holding Out for Something Better

“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

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

“Then Frodo's heart flamed within him, and without thinking what he did, whether it was folly or despair or courage, he took the Phial in his left hand, and with his right hand drew his sword. Sting flashed out, and the sharp elven-blade sparkled in the silver light, but at its edges a blue fire flicked. Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Beekeeping is the world’s second oldest profession. The first apiarists were the ancient Egyptians. Bees were royal symbols, the tears of Re, the sun god.

In Greek mythology, Aristaeus, the god of beekeeping, was taught by nymphs to tend bees.

The Bible promises a land of milk and honey. The Koran says paradise has rivers of honey for those who guard against evil. Krishna, the Hindu deity, is often shown with a blue bee on his forehead. The bee itself is considered a symbol of Christ: the sting of Justice and mercy of honey, side by side.

The first voodoo dolls were molded from beeswax; an oungan might tell you to smear honey on a person to keep ghosts at bay; a manbo would make little cakes of honey, amaranth, and whiskey, which, eaten before the new moon, could show you your future.

Sometimes I wonder which of my prehistoric ancestors first stuck his arm into a hole in a tree. Did he come out with a handful of honey, or a fistful of stings? Is the promise of one worth the risk of the other?”
― Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Mad Honey

“Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

“As we walked to Fr Walsh’s office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten for the missing page fiasco, and he told me, straight-faced, that his last thrashing was because his dad was a milkman.”
― James Berryman

“In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the ‘slipper’, advising everyone to wrap rags around their feet.”
― James Berryman

“Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content of the command; the sting remains behind in him. When a command functions normally and as one expects, there is nothing to be seen of the sting; it is hidden and unsuspected and may only reveal its existence by some faint, scarcely perceptible recalcitrance before the command obeyed.”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

“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

“Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.”
― Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin

“I prefer male enemies to female ones; I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Santi was a behemoth in the art world, and being known solely by one's first name was a level of fame achieved only by an elite few... people like Napoleon, Galileo, and Jesus... and, of course, the demigods Langdon now heard blaring from Harvard dormitories - Sting, Madonna, Jewel, and the artist formerly known as Prince, who had changed his name to the symbol ?, causing Langdon to dub him 'The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“The sting was an intoxicating dichotomy of pleasurable pain.”
― Mistress Black Rose, Double Entendre

“Roxie’s lips were still swollen from the heated kisses they’d shared, and she couldn’t help but lift her fingertips to brush against them, feeling the tender sting.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Long live Jude,' she says with a wink, setting down the tray on a table with a clatter of the pots and saucers and whatnot. 'No thanks to me.'

I grin. 'Good thing you're a lousy shot.'

She holds up a packet of herbs. 'A poultice. To draw any fever from the blood and help the patient heal faster. Unfortunately, it won't draw the sting from your tongue.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I reach out my hand to the fire. Since I was formed of snow, I wonder if I will melt. I hold my fingers close enough to burn, but all that happens when I snatch them back is that the tips are reddened and they sting.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Shaken to the core, if you know what I mean.

I’ve told you how I got engaged to Honoria Glossop in my efforts to do young Bingo Little a good turn. Well, on this particular morning she had lugged me round to Aunt Agatha’s for lunch, and I was just saying ‘Death, where is thy jolly old sting?’ when I realized that the worst was yet to come.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

“The sting of the bee is worst in a swarm.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Lifemaker

“Eat mosquitoes and you will have a stinging appetite.”
― Anthony T. Hincks