Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.
Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
Education is not Democrat versus Republican. It's about doing the right things for the right reason for our kids.
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.
The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.
I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.
