A Quote by Katie MacAlister

Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

Katie MacAlister

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Katie MacAlister
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Born: 1964

In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

Joanne Harris

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Patricia Briggs

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Charles Colson

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

T. S. Eliot

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

A. S. Byatt

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

Stephen Vizinczey

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Auguste Rodin

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Virgil

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Lev Artsimovich

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

Garth Brooks

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Miguel de Cervantes

To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

Adam Smith

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

Stephen King

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.