Tues Ten 040709: Runners Up

It’s lunchtime, and I’ve been perusing my digital diary in search of  inspiration.  I tend to record ideas and quotes or phrases I’ve read there in case I want to come back and think or write about them.  That’s where I usually pull Most Interesting Phrase of the Week entries to highlight.  I’ve found quite a few (actually 10) today.  So, in honor of Michigan State and their hanging around for the last dance, I present this week’s Tuesday Ten: “phrases” that were edged out (or beaten in solid double-digits) by one only momentarily more interesting.

1.  ”The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson’s. Everything else was up to me.”
~ Michael J. Fox, in this USA Today article about his upcoming book

2.  ”While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life.”
~ Bishop John D’Arcy in a statement quoted in this Fox News article about President Obama’s scheduled commencement address at Notre Dame

3. “…God-given promise that all are equal.  All are free.  All deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness…”
~ from my notes taken during President Obama’s inauguration address.  [disarmingly poignant juxtaposed with phrase #2]

4. “History is Your story.”
~ from my notes taken during Rick Warren’s prayer at the presidential Inauguration

5. “From a faith standpoint, my God is big enough – and I have told Him I am open enough – to hearing His voice correct me where I’m wrong. You are free to worry about my soul if you want, but I don’t think it’s necessary.”
~ slightly cosmopolitan in this post

6. “The phrase ‘social justice’ can be loaded. To some people it is a political or a liberal conversation, but to me, it is a Kingdom conversation. There are people behind these stories and statistics, and God’s heart for justice burns on their behalf.”
~ Sara Groves on her website

7. ”In a mad world, isn’t the madman who is aware of his madness the only sane person?”
~ Elie Wiesel, from his upcoming book, mentioned in this USA Today article

8. “It take a special kind of courage to face and deal with our past in-completions.  Often these in-completions are the most significant barrier to expressing our full creativity in the present.”
~quote from Gaye & Kathleen Hendricks in this post by Motivation Mama

9. “cartoon dramatization.  results not typical.”
~ fine print on a TV ad I saw for some kind of diet pill.  really? cartoon dramatizations aren’t typical?

10. “If I couldn’t make sense to a table full of liquored-up leftie hippie Buddhist artists, who could I make sense to?”
~ Polly Pagenhart, in a contributing essay for this book

I say that same thing to myself all the time!