A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Elizabeth Hardwick

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
John McCain

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Molly Ivins

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Charlotte Bronte

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.
Charles Keating

I love both my parents dearly.
Kevin Eubanks

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
Francois Mauriac

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Pete Seeger

I love my mother dearly, but it wouldn't be suitable for me to live with her all the time.
Keith Emerson

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.
Peter Matthiessen

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
Alice Walker

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
Alain Rene Le Sage

My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.
Wild Bill Hickok

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
Dan Lipinski

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
John Fund