“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters
Cited in Power Quotes: For Life, Business, and Leadership (2018) by Danai Krokou, ISBN 1-63157-750-6
General sources
Source: Wyrd Sisters
Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 215
“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters
Cited in Power Quotes: For Life, Business, and Leadership (2018) by Danai Krokou, ISBN 1-63157-750-6
General sources
Source: Wyrd Sisters
Parker Palmer (1939) American theologian
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), p. 54
“All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.”
Alan Sillitoe book Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Source: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
" Come up higher!"
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 564.
“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"The Peace of Wild Things" in Green River Review, No. 1 (1968).
Context: I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
“Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Basic Education (1951) p. 89
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
Context: Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.
L. Frank Baum book The Patchwork Girl of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913), Ch. 6 : The Journey
Later Oz novels
“Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician