Top 48 Minefield Quotes
#1. The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up.
Arturs Irbe
#2. The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner.
Kofi Annan
#3. I knew there was a minefield ahead of me and no way to avoid the bombs, and even if you didn't actually step on the bombs, you were already transformed by constantly looking out for them.
Toure
#4. I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.
Anne Roiphe
#5. Best if you think of this room as a minefield. Tread carefully or get exploded, she advised Jared, and then said aloud, Hideous brats! We have a guest. Conceal evidence of your crimes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#6. Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!
Michael Beckwith
#7. No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.
Sheryl Sandberg
#8. Oh, the things she would say if she could--but it's a minefield of courtesies and manners, this dying business.
Jess Walter
#9. Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.
Michael O'Donoghue
#10. It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.
Jimmy Buffett
#11. It's easy to think the minefield wasn't that bad once you're safely watching other people get blown up.
Liane Moriarty
#12. The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.
Tina Fey
#13. Marriage is a freaking minefield.
J.D. Robb
#14. Life, if you're fat is a minefield
you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up.
Miriam Margolyes
#15. Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
Ian K. Smith
#16. Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
Brene Brown
#17. With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.
Erma Bombeck
#18. If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.
Georgy Zhukov
#19. In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas!
Nicholas Kristof
#20. Life, I now realize, is just one big trek across a minefield and you never know which step is going to blow you up.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#21. Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications.
Tana French
#22. We talk about your drinking
But not about your thirst
You set off through the minefield
Like you were rounding first
Rosanne Cash
#23. When Gazza was dribbling he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.
Bobby Robson
#24. I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.
Jonathan Lethem
#26. Parliament/Congress.
less entertaining than paint drying, but more dangerous than any minefield is.
Steve Merrick
#27. Anyone who doubts the subjective flexibility of time should spend an afternoon walking through a minefield.
Gregory H. Murry
#28. Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward perfection.
Greg Egan
#29. As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#30. I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.
Ann Aguirre
#31. Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.
William J. Mann
#32. There is value in every date and every relationship regardless of where it ends up. Not everyone is going to love you, and the sooner you can embrace that and be okay with it, the better off you will be in the dating minefield. The opinion of others doesn't make us who we are.
Cindy Johnson
#33. Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield.
Geoff Downes
#34. Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.
John Ortberg
#35. RBG's most famous words in the Hobby Lobby dissent could have appeared in any of her searing dissents: "The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.
Irin Carmon
#36. I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.
Si Robertson
#37. Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.
Twiggy
#38. To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
Yasmine Al Masri
#39. It's a philosophical minefield!
Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
Jonathan L. Howard
#40. A totalitarian system leaves behind it a minefield built into both the country's social structure and the individual psychology of its citizens. And mines explode each time the system faces the danger of being dismantled and the country sees the prospect of genuine renewal.
Anatoly Sobchak
#42. Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
Zhu Rongji
#43. Appearing ordinary is one of her best talents. As long as nothing unexpected blows up in her face, which, of course, life being the minefield that it is, is about to.
Lesley Kagen
#44. The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.
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Danilo Kis
#45. Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.
Thomas Lennon
#46. Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is the rest is semi-history.
Kurt Fuller
#48. The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
Terry Pratchett
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