Petitions Quote by Shane MacGowan Download Open image “Petitions are ridiculous.” — Shane MacGowan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Petitions Ridiculous
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance. — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life,… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah? And the… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
“For its stupid to laugh and its useless to bawl About a rusty tin can and an old hurley ball ” — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know? — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God,… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
