#make up

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound. ↗

— Gerry Beckley

#age #america #basic #basic elements #best

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. ↗

— Francis Marion Crawford

#elements #everyone #friendship #make #make up

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#folks #happy #make #make up #minds

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#body #difference #facts #i #like

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#ago #atoms #body #born #brain

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations. ↗

— Huston Smith

#big #big bang #civilizations #eight #god

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. ↗

— Amy Tan

#enough #expression #freedom #freedom of expression #had

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#continuous #courses #followed #intuitions #make