Playing With Fire Quotes

• If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

  Bam Bam Bigelow

  Fire, Play, Burned

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• Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

  Jerry Smith

  Fire, Pleasure

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• The one advantage of playing with fire...is
  that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fun, Fire, Play

  Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, Henry Zick (1909). “The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: What never dies”

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• So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

  George Orwell

  Fire, Wings, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

  Simone Elkeles

  Fire, Burned

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• The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

  Billy Wilder

  Writing, Fire

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• Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Crush, Sweet, Fire

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• But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.

  Jim Cramer

  Fire, Momentum, Careful

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• Let's all wise up. Some of us aren't fighting the fire; we're playing with fire. Flirting with the devil. Stop it! Stop it now before all hell literally breaks loose.

  Beth Moore

  Wise, Fighting, Flirting

  Beth Moore, International Mission Board, (2010). “Voices of the Faithful: Inspiring Stories of Courage from Christians Serving Around the World”, p.325, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

  Merle Shain

  Sex, Deep Love, Fire

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Children, Fire, Burned

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

  John F. Kerry

  Fire, Action, Excuse

  "Climate change report: It's 'extremely likely' that humans are responsible" by Brandon Miller, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2013.

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• I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

  Cecily McMillan

  Thinking, Fire, Scary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.

  William F. Laurance

  Fire, Years, Two Year Olds

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• Playing with fire Kitten?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Fire, Kitten

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

  Tina St. John

  Fire, Giving, Midnight

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• You are obviously writing out of experience and so the boundaries are always blurred, it is just that sometimes it would seem that you are playing with fire a little bit by choosing someone that obviously existed.

  Robert Dessaix

  Writing, Fire, Littles

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

  Dennis Prager

  Wall, Confused, Class

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• Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

  John Updike

  Song, Attitude, War

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.462, Random House

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• I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Mean, Fire, People

  "Witches in Queensland?". "The Religion Report" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. December 13, 2000.

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• Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Cutting, Fire, Ideas

  "Athens demands cash reserves from public sector funds" by Katie Allen, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2015.

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• I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Fire, Play

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