Red Thread Quotes

• Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Running, Writing, Earth

  8 Copy quote

• Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

  Alice Hoffman

  Kissing, Years, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “The Probable Future”, Random House LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Running, Years

  16 Copy quote

• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Night, Men

  10 Copy quote

• If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.

  Murray Rothbard

  Running, Government, Uniting

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.95, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  7 Copy quote

  Show source