A Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

There is no safety this side of the grave

Robert A. Heinlein

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Grave Safety Side

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Robert A. Heinlein
American - Writer
July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

Louisa May Alcott

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

Billy Bob Thornton

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Henry Ward Beecher

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.

Gwen Moore

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.

Ronald Reagan

The grave has a door on its inner side.

Alexander MacLaren

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Seamus Heaney

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Winston Churchill

The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.

Ravi Zacharias

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

Ernest Hemingway

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Alexander MacLaren

How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

Andy Stanley

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Todd Young

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.