stinging rebuke of the incumbent. What it tells you is that the majority of Brooklyn prefer a change.
Quotes about stinging (16 Quotes)
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their ploughing of the soil. The muscles of the horse are as taut as fiddle-strings, and suddenly a horse-fly alights on its croup, buzzing and stinging. The horse's skin quivers, it waves its tail. What is the fly buzzing about It probably doesn't know itself. It simply has a restless nature and wants to make itself felt 'I'm alive, too, you know' it seems to say. 'Look, I know how to buzz, there's nothing I can't buzz about' I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
Notre Dame was a big game for us - a statement game. We were still stinging from the loss to Ridgefield. We showed we could beat a quality team.
There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said ''YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.''
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
We haven't really started to dive into a full analysis of this year because we're still emotionally stinging a little bit from Saturday night.
We can keep them from stinging people. But because nobody else is doing it around us, eradication is probably not likely.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
It (Russellville loss) is still stinging. We know that we are not in the playoffs for sure. We have six games left and we have to take it one game at a time. We must treat them all as must-win games.
I went back to the room to study and my nerves were shattered. I handicapped for three hours until my eyes were stinging. They hurt like hell.
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot. Teach me to hear Mermaides' singing, Or to keep of envies stinging, And finde What winde Serves to advance an honest minde.
When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.
This was a hard-fought game. UMKC was stinging off a home loss at Oral Roberts and their players played with a lot of fight and determination. They made key shot after key shot. I am pleased with how hard we fought. At this stage of the year, I couldn't be happier with where we are. To sweep six straight games at home is definitely a feat.
For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this good because my mother was supposed to die, I told you, when I was 4 years old. She was very ill, and I couldn't live with her, but God gave her to me for 60 years so there is no stinging today. You know, this is his glory. His greatest gift was the gift of my mother for 60 years. That's it.