Citations:play with fire

English citations of play with fire

• 1995, Chrono Trigger, spoken by Magus:

  Magus: Just like that poor fool, Crono! […] He's history! Play with fire and you get burned.

• 2013, Tim Myers, Melissa Sheppard, “Bad Things”, in Dear You‎^[1], performed by Meiko:

  You'll get yours, I'll get mine / Then we run out of time / You're the only one that I desire / 'Cause I love to play with fire

• 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change‎^[2], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 310–311:

  Long predicted by climate models, stratospheric cooling is a result of the Earth’s atmosphere attempting to maintain its energy “balance.” Much more work will need to be performed before this troubling surprise is fully understood, but it already illustrates the recklessness of this “planetary experiment” that humanity has under way. We are not only playing with fire, but ice as well. As Robert Frost wrote, “Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice.” Either one, he added, “would suffice.”

• 2022 July 29, Xi Jinping, quotee, “Xi speaks with Biden over phone”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[3], archived from the original on 28 July 2022:

  The position of the Chinese government and people on the Taiwan question is consistent, and resolutely safeguarding China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the firm will of the more than 1.4 billion Chinese people, he said.
  The will of the people cannot be defied and those who play with fire will perish by it, he said, adding that it is hoped that the United States will be clear-eyed about this.