Ferenc Puskás (1927–2006) Hungarian-Spanish association football player
Preston and England legend Sir Tom Finney
“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”
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Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974
Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 215
Variant: I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.
Source: Vampire Academy
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 4, p. 52
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Source: Stop All The Clocks
Lana Turner (1921–1995) American actress
On the aftermath of her suicide attempt, p. 160.
Autobiography
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
This has also appeared in paraphrased form as: "If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished."
The Paris Review interview (1981)
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Introducing John F. Kennedy in 1960, as quoted in Adlai Stevenson and The World: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (1977) by John Bartlow Martin, p. 549