I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Even in my personal life, I can't bear to have bad feelings.

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

I've never had trouble talking and expressing my feelings.

My feeling is that if all Catholics or Reformed Christians had been deported to Germany, the Dutch government in London would have instructed the population in the occupied Netherlands to help them.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

Winning the middleweight title was an amazing feeling.

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've been able to apply that to feelings. I used to like to know what I felt. I didn't want those feelings to be complicated or muddled or clashing.

As you begin to develop real relationships and bonds it gets harder because sometimes you say things to people and hurt their feelings and you really care about them.

When I was first named as Deputy Prime Minister, there was a feeling of shock that I should be chosen because I was labeled as being an ultra and very anti-Chinese.

It's easy to have strong, visceral feelings about disrespecting America. It's harder to get passionate about tax law.