James Thurber Quotes

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

Believe me, Winston, that hat fits you perfectly. You are going gradually have to get used to me leading you.

We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.

I trust you because I need you.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

You have no power or authority, of course.... Is there anything we can appear to do?

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

What would I do without you? You're never going to find out.

Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.