“Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior.” PeopleWantNeedsPersonsReasonLeftSexBlackLinesNumbersRaceRightsMovementChangedBehaviorArgumentCivil RightsPlentyAgendasHomosexualCivil Rights MovementBlack Person Author:Erwin W. Lutzer
“Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.” GivingWholeMovingSexNumbersHalfMaterialsReaderSceneNegativeHotMessCuteHeatBloodyKittenDrainingGood Sex Author:Sandra Newman
“While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.” WaySexNumbersWonderFantasyDefiningExclusiveHaving Sex Author:Nigella Lawson
“In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.” BelieveSometimesHumorKidsAmericaPoliticalCultureSexWaitingNumbersPracticeMillionsViolenceProgramInnocenceSpitePregnancyBelieve In GodTeensVolunteerSignalsLarge NumbersPopular CulturePolitical HumorTeen PregnancyVolunteer Work Author:George W. Bush
“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.” PersonsSexChurchNumbersHistorySupportSixDifficultyInstitutionsFilledAncientProfessionRomePerpetualDevotedPrimitiveChastityRoman EmpireAncient Rome Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.” WritingTwoBookSexSinNumbersIncreaseCommitDecrease Author:Alphonse Karr
“Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.” PeopleWorldWellsLooksReasonYoungSexNumbersMarriageMarriedOppositesGreenDivorceSurfaceProportionJerseyGetting MarriedBaritones Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
“At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'” SaidStatesHouseSexLinesWhiteNumbersBoysRecordsBillsClintonPhonesSeekingJournalistWhite HouseSecretarySummitBriefingWrong Number Author:Jay Leno
“The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.” GivingCharacterUseLiteratureNamesSpeakSexCausesNumbersMassNovelistsBehaveGesturesConsistentlyColleaguesDescribingPlausibleInvertedNiceties Author:E. M. Forster
“Sex is Number 1 of my Top-10 joys in retirement. Number 2 is reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. I forgot the other eight.” HumorFunnyJoyReadingSexNumbersEightRetirementRetiringWild And FreeTop 10Number 2 Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies. Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have.” PeopleThinkingCertainSexNumbersMisguidedCrabsGroupie Author:George Carlin
“In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.” YearsSchoolSexChurchNumbersGrowing UpGrowingIgnoranceMultitudesSettlement Author:John Strachan