Allan Bloom Quotes

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

We all make decisions, and within those decisions, we have consequences.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.

A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.