It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass--or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses--can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond
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Related For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into ... ANONYMOUS From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Eve... NOAH FELDMAN One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a differenc... BOB RILEY Good teams can make one play into something and they did. They made a play that made the difference ... DAVE SARACHAN Kevin has been fighting for protective legislation for innocent unborn children and their mothers fo... GAYLE ATTEBERRY One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe... BOB RILEY Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make su... NATE CORDDRY In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female... HARUKI MURAKAMI (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply in... JOHN BERGER People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... If you wish to have children, please do something for the world you will bring them into. That will ... THICH NHAT HANH Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchco... BRET EASTON ELLIS Because we see prevention as so inclusive, the task we have set for ourselves is very difficult and ... BERNARD LEVIN Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for p... REINCE PRIEBUS I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a differe... BILL RICHARDSON One had to speak of sex; one had to speak publicly and in a manner that was not determined by the di... MICHEL FOUCAULT I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologi... ROBERT MATSUI I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war... ISHMAEL BEAH Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Whether these matters are to be regarded as sport, or as earnest, we must not forget that this pleas... PLATO While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is w... CHRISTINA ENGELA You really can't say that something will make you or break you. If you get into that, you're setting... MARK MANGINO We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their li... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS I like dealing with parents whose children have been arrested for the first time, ... It's one of th... DAVID COPPERFIELD Being an actor is a lot more involved than many people realize; there are hundreds of ways to play a... CONAN STEVENS One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shi... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I know there are some drugs that one or two letters can make a difference. Being able to read the di... PAT EPPLE Clearly, it is difficult to make a case for a housing price bubble in Austin or anyplace else in Tex... ELDON RUDE One male from the George's River area was pronounced dead at the scene and another male was taken in... BARRY GORDON We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their li... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w... NORMAN DOUGLAS Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w... GEORGE NORMAN DOUGLAS One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make the... GERARD BUTLER Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For exa... ALISON MILLER When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone ... MARY ELLEN MARK Malaria eradication requires a 100% mind-set of success. There are no 70% or 80% or 90% efforts that... T.K. NALIAKA Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. KATE CLINTON Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run aro... 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JUSTICE KIRBY One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fi... GEORGE ALLEN One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fi... GEORGE ALLEN, SR. It was really difficult out there and I just tried to make sure I put as many balls as possible in c... DANIELA HANTUCHOVA You could make a very strong and persuasive argument that Katherine Harris is responsible for George... TOM SLADE I won't necessarily ascribe evil intent to this, ... but if they make it a little more difficult for... CHARLES GOLVIN Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself... BILL WALTON Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and g... CHRISTOPHER LEE If it requires a screw to be inserted Ben could be sidelined for around 10 weeks. MARY TOOMEY Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to... ABERJHANI I try not to put a whole lot of weight into one play or one game or one pitch for any of us, ... You... JEFF KENT Reading all the quotes in the world won’t make you or me into Plato, Gandhi Or Einstein, just like... PABLO VALLE It shows you that one person's life can make a difference. You had to stop in some sort of reverence... DERRICK JOHNSON There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radi... EVITA PERóN For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr... TED DEUTCH They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as a... NEIL GAIMAN Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbo... SAMANTHA POWER Your social security number is one of your most critical pieces of information that you will have in... KELLY RODRIGUE While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could trav... SETH SHOSTAK Advice to friends. Advice to fellow mothers in the same boat. "How do you do it all?" Crack a joke. ... REBECCA WOOLF Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the differen... ANTHEA TURNER I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Even if the answer to FOP is only for FOP, it wouldn't in any way dissuade me from working on it, ..... FRED KAPLAN Our Arab mothers and sisters are suffering from injustices like domestic violence, sexual harassment... AYSHA TARYAM I wonder how many people have heard of ECMA? I wonder how many people make actions based on ECMA? Fo... DAVID SMITH I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell. RAHEEL FAROOQ If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to te... DR ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can... BETTY WILLIAMS It's a normal procedure that we have in place. It's just one technique, one tool, but as you can ima... MICHAEL EVANS The people have spoken through the more than 400 resolutions, calling for individualized suspicion a... CHIP PITTS I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. Y... JIM JORDAN And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get; / Even s... BIBLE Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of famili... DAN MARINO Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. KATE CLINTON The President inserted a cigar into Ms Lewinsky's vagina, then put the cigar in his mouth and said: ... KENNETH STARR It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch... KATE DICAMILLO Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in m... THOMAS FULLER People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ... WILHELM REICH We're just young enough where, against good teams like this, if we miss a free throw and they make a... GARY KELLOUGH I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questi... GEORGE STEINER LET US THINK OF EDUCATION AS THE MEANS OF DEVELOPING OUR GREATEST ABILITIES, BECAUSE IN EACH OF US T... JOHN F. KENNEDY Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. JEFFREY EUGENIDES It's very difficult to have a budget for utilities if they're bouncing around all over the place. If... BRYAN CLINTSMAN Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10... DAN SAVAGE Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of enc... STEVE GOODIER You can still find buttons for 5 cents, but a single button can go into the hundreds, even thousands... RUTH MEYERS The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into f... D.H. LAWRENCE One could run these automata for trillions or even trillions of trillions of iterations, and the ima... RAY KURZWEIL I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'... DREW BREES Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female. KATE CHRISTENSEN People say one tree doesn't make a difference, but really they do. BILL BUTLER
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QUEEN LATIFAH I pondered long and hard and really put off answering him, King Hussein, when it was clear that he w... QUEEN NOOR The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most ... QUEEN VICTORIA Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be ... QUEEN VICTORIA You are interested in the kitchen of the world - you want to find out what is cooking who has a fing... QUEEN JULIANA Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess. QUEEN JULIANA It's better for people to be likeable than popular. QUEEN RANIA Oreos come in packages. Otherwise known as a gift. Cherish it. OREO QUEEN If you want to win the heart and the mind of the Muslim community, you want to tell them, 'God said.... QUEEN ELIZABETH It has shown us all how our faith -- whatever our religion -- can inspire us to work together in fri... 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I love pasta... QUEEN LATIFAH You would have to cope with those make or break claims. As you can see, I am not in an ideal situati... FRANK QUEEN The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, star... QUEEN LATIFAH You know, it's always going to be a fight. I feel honored to represent for my folks ... I'm glad [th... QUEEN LATIFAH Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other h... QUEEN LATIFAH He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an inst... ELLERY QUEEN I shall die a bachelor! QUEEN CHRISTINA Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan. QUEEN LATIFAH I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Rac... QUEEN LATIFAH I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model. QUEEN LATIFAH To these qualities must be added one which is of great importance, this is discretion; humble as it ... QUEEN VICTORIA It just means I don't have to go far to get home from the premiere. My whole family is here, so it's... QUEEN LATIFAH Bob Johnson had the vision to create a network for us when nobody else was. QUEEN LATIFAH This is the best tour, man, and it's all women! ... I wanted to do this because I was excited about ... QUEEN LATIFAH I love the message of the movie, which is that family is love. It doesn't matter if you don't look l... QUEEN LATIFAH I think the reason I am here is to inspire African-American women who are rappers, full-figured wome... QUEEN LATIFAH He did all the extreme stunts. QUEEN LATIFAH I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I wa... QUEEN LATIFAH The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'.... QUEEN VICTORIA but the seeds of recovery are being sown. QUEEN ELIZABETH It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other. QUEEN JULIANA I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, l... QUEEN LATIFAH When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife ... QUEEN VICTORIA We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the... QUEEN VICTORIA Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole... QUEEN LATIFAH ... I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, ..... QUEEN NOOR [In her best-selling book,] Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, ... magic. QUEEN NOOR I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I wou... QUEEN LATIFAH Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. CAROL BURNETT I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving. CAROL ALT But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it ha... CAROL BURNETT Comedy is tragedy - plus time. CAROL BURNETT We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted. CAROL BURNETT You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. 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