Smarting Quotes

#1. I'm following hot on her heels, smarting from her latest rebuttal, and I can't contain my temper as the flood of rejection washes over me, tossing me precariously close to the edge.

Siobhan Davis

#2. You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.

Hjalmar Schacht

#4. I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

Gillian Flynn

#5. Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure - in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.

Tedd Tripp

#6. It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

Charles Dickens

#7. And the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire.

Hermann Hesse

#8. She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. What say you? Hence,
Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes
Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head:
Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,
Smarting in lingering pickle.

William Shakespeare

#10. I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Jean Piaget

#11. God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

Sylvia Plath

#12. The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

Timothy Hallinan

#13. Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

Mahalia Jackson

#14. It requires an act of extreme arrogance to think that we can - through God or science - learn even the most fundamental secrets of the universe. To say as much claims that we are somehow greater than the universe in which we live, its masters, when in fact it is master of us.

Michel Templet

#15. The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

Rodney Stark

#16. Cade separated the man from his rifle, his hostage and his life, in that order.

Christopher Farnsworth

#17. I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

Shakira

#18. Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron