Nathan Scott Quotes

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're seventeen and planning for someday, and then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today, and that someday is yesterday and this is your life.

It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're seventeen and planning for someday. And then quietly, and without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

The connection between the changing role of the police in American society and efforts to control culturally subversive groups is illustrated in the backgrounds of some of the most well-known of the “occult cops.” Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedecker’s examination of these usually low-ranking detectives found that many of them “had spied on groups opposing racism or the Vietnam War in the late 1960s.” Before morphing into “occult experts” they traveled the “small town lecture circuit” warning mainly white, middle-class audiences about the danger of “Moonies” and other alternative religious movements. The role of the police in the satanic panic of the 1980s appears to be symptomatic of a much larger problem. Rather than asking its police to prevent and prosecute crimes against person and property, white America asked it to crusade against evil, to slay monsters and demons. In an urban America prostrated by the growing economic inequality of the 1980s and the consequent deadly mix of entrepreneurialism and despair that constituted the crack epidemic, politicians gravitated to the “tough on crime” rhetoric that became such an important part of the successful campaigns of Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. Meanwhile, the leadership of the evangelical and Charismatic worlds adopted a very similar rhetoric in which their followers were asked to engage in an unrelenting war on the forces of darkness threatening their homes, children, churches, and communities.

In 1900, Planck proposed a revolutionary idea to explain the phenomenon of blackbody radiation. He introduced the concept of quantization, suggesting that energy can only be absorbed or emitted in discrete, indivisible units called "quanta.

Albert Einstein further advanced the field with his groundbreaking explanation of the photoelectric effect. In 1905, Einstein proposed that light behaves not only as a wave but also as a particle, now known as a photon.

Niels Bohr and his colleagues. In the 1920s, Bohr introduced the concept of quantized energy levels in atoms, revolutionizing our understanding of atomic structure. Bohr's model, known as the Bohr model, provided a framework for explaining the discrete emission and absorption spectra observed in atomic systems.

We will finally set right what we allowed to go wrong all those decades ago. Then Nathan Scott will no longer be of concern.” Dumar

Fred Bailey, a young black runaway, changed his last name to Douglass in honor of Scott’s epic poem The Lady of the Lake. The hero of the epic was Lord James of Douglas, who was willing to give up his life to avert a bloody civil war between highlanders and lowlanders. Bailey’s black benefactor, Nathan Johnson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, suggested adding an extra s for good measure. Bailey would now be known as Frederick Douglass.

Granville mangiò con metodo, il pensiero apparentemente rivolto ancora al passato che le mie domande gli avevano fatto rivivere. «Un uomo viene ricordato spesso», disse riflettendo, «più per come ha vissuto – o è morto – che per quello che ha scritto. Oppure, si trasforma nelle sue opere: Cervantes è diventato Don Chisciotte, Byron è diventato Don Juan. E Hemingway l’uomo forte e senza paura, e Scott Fitzgerald per sempre giovane e bellissimo». «E dannato?», osai. «Sì», rispose. «Ma risorto». Proseguì spiegando che ogni scrittore, dopo la morte, va in un limbo in cui aspetta o che la sua opera sia riportata alla luce, oppure che sia dimenticata per sempre. «Alcuni», disse, «risvegliati dagli amici o da qualche studioso, vivono una seconda esistenza, per poi ricadere nell’oscurità, e questa è la vera morte a cui non segue resurrezione. Altri rimangono in attesa nelle tenebre, e aspettano invano, e alla fine scompaiono in una nota d’appendice. Ma altri ancora, come Shelley, brillano più che quando erano in vita. Naturalmente, esistono delle eccezioni. Goethe non si è mai eclissato: come figura letteraria non è mai morto. È stato venerato in vita, e ancora è compreso nel novero degli immortali, divini, riveriti, e antisemiti. Non si può parlare con certezza dei Greci e dei Romani, perché ci si è messo di mezzo il Medioevo, quando tutta la conoscenza era concentrata nelle mani della Chiesa, e non si sapeva niente di certo se non che la terra era piatta. Quanto ai candidati di oggi, è ancora troppo presto per dirlo; e inoltre, ce ne sono troppi… Ogni anno, i critici prendono un ragazzo nuovo sul capo del quale pongono la corona d’alloro, per quanto mi riguarda ciascuno più sconosciuto del precedente. E il poeta laureato dell’anno prima scompare nella storia, insieme a Whittier, e a William Vaughan Moody».

The day we stop showing compassion for our enemy, Nathan-- --is the day we become the enemy.